Design Strategy & Innovation

City of Kingston Zoning Code Working Group

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (current)

18F (2018-2021)

UNICEF Tanzania (2017-2018)
Partnership development with the University of Dar es Salaam, including an Innovation Hub for youth-led innovation for children, strengthening of innovation and entrepreneurship pipeline, and development of design courses and trainings

MINUSMA Human Rights Division (2017)
Design research, development and deployment of mobile for development initiative for sensitization on human rights

UNICEF Papua New Guinea (2016)
Innovation Lead: Youth engagement and mobile for development Initiatives

UNICEF NYHQ – Innovation Unit (2014-2016)
Academic Partnerships Lead

 

Speaking and teaching engagements:

Women in Cybersecurity, April 2024, “Awareness alone won’t save us: why human-centered design is crucial to the future of cybersecurity”

Parsons School of Design, M.S. Strategic Design & Management (current), www.newschool.edu/parsons/masters-design-management/
University of Dar es Salaam, College of ICT (current)
Posters, Poetry, & Protest, workshop, The Center for Book Arts, NYC, (September 2017) http://centerforbookarts.org/event/posters-poetry-protest/
University of Nairobi, Nairobi Design Thinking School, Communications for Development Lab (2016), http://ndts.c4dlab.ac.ke/
Design workshop, IPB Bogor, Indonesia, 2014
Design for UNICEF workshop, City University of New York (CUNY), 2014
Seditious Pamphleteering , The Telling Room, Portland, ME

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