Ashley Gallegos, the Belonging Coordinator at the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, dives into defining “belonging”, exploring creating safer spaces, and recognizing the benefits of queering design.

Chelsea Goldwell, Partner & Creative Director at Zero Studios, joins us as we question how, and if, design can break the gender binary. Designers and creatives sometimes aim to spark social change but are challenged with systems and societal norms that make envisioning a new future difficult. In both design and life, things are a spectrum and not always either/or.

George Aye, co-founder of Greater Good Studio, dives into what are the ethics that should inform our practice as community designers, especially in moments of moral complexity and increased social fractioning.

As the pandemic ebbed in New York City in June 2021 and around the U.S, we were sitting in an abundance precipice -- the return to normal was perilously close. But what about a new normal - an abnormal future? We had a conversation with Marianna Martinelli, Community Consultant and former Director of Community at The Wing, about designing for abundant communities.

Rashid Owoyele (they/them) is a Nigerian-American Transdisciplinary Designer and Social Innovation expert. Rashid's work explores the implications of cooperative principles in the future networked society – including platform cooperativism and the conditions conducive to distributed ownership of ethical production. See our discussion on democratisation of technology through 'glocal' communities, how scientific research and social innovation interact, and more!

Jess Harris (she/her), the VP of Membership at re—inc, is on a quest for career and community that supports one of her core beliefs: The world’s problems need interdisciplinary, creative, designed, history-bound, caring solutions. In this Community Jam we dug into Jess' passion for solving complex problems through the lens of care and history.