Speaking Engagements
Design Action members are available for panel discussions, teaching engagements, workshop facilitations, or other consultations. With our members’ diverse backgrounds and expertise, we’re able to draw on our 20+ years of experience as a worker-owned, politically driven design firm to bring insights to your organization that help you grow the way you want.
Some of our past engagements include:
- Foundations of Workplace Democracy: Founder Compensation
Co-op Clinic – Technical Assistance — US Federation of Worker Co-ops - Designs on Democracy: The Roles and Responsibilities of Graphic Designers in the Trump Era
Letterform Archive - Designs on Democracy
Allied Media Conference - Creative Resistance and Direct Action, What is “Place-keeping”?
Allied Media Conference - Designs on Democracy: The Roles and Responsibilities of Graphic Designers
Netroots Nation - Designs on Democracy: Using Graphic Design to Reframe the Story and Win
Netroots Nation - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Digital Design in 2016 and Beyond
Netroots Nation - Align Left: Why Designers are Integral to the Resistance
Netroots Nation - Designing for Advocacy: Roles & Responsibilities of Creatives in the Resistance
SF Design Week - Design Activism: A Dialogue on Protest, Policing, and Demanding the Future We Need
Design Museum Foundation - Trying Times: Understanding the Impacts of Neoliberalism under Trump
People Get Ready — Center for Political Education - Ms. Marvel: Kamala Khan & Desi Community Power
Graphic Policy Radio Podcast - The Plague of Worker Expendability with Sabiha Basrai and Ricardo Nuñez
The Plague Podcast - Diaspora and Jinns
Good Muslim Bad Muslim Podcast