Michele Washington is a NYC-based designer. She applies Design Thinking and User-Centered Interaction Design solutions to address complex issues which deliver meaningful solutions and solve problems that are culturally relevant. Recent projects include mobile publishing platforms and web-based integration, content strategy and curating popups. She has worked with Coforma, A Long Walk Home, City as Living Lab, the Chronicle of Higher Education, desigNYC, Museum of Science and Industry among others. She is founder of “Curious Story Lab,” a podcast series and short documentary films featuring designers, architects, urbanism, fashion and product designers and food designers of color. Keeping a stake hold in her creative community is critical and she often frequently speaks about Design and the History of African American Designers. She teaches branding and design in the MA Faculty Exhibition Design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited in “Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference” held at the Bard Graduate Center, Design Journey: You Are Here at the AIGA headquarters, and Google Black History and Culture.  Michele’s writing and visual essays has appeared in AIGA Design Journey website, American Passin It Down Cookbook, Print Magazine, IRAAA Webzine and the Design Crit Chapbook. She is the editor of culturalboundaries.com a design and pop culture blog.

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