Speaking Engagements
Rosenfeld Civic Design Conference
December 8, 2021
Shifting Toward Community-Led Innovation in Local Government
Co-Presenters
Mari Nakano Director of Design, NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, Service Design Studio
Devika Menon Service Design Strategist, City of Philadelphia
Danita J. Reese Service Design Strategist, City of Philadelphia
Nidhi Singh Rathore Civic Design Lead, Montgomery County Government
DESCRIPTION
This session is a panel discussion about what community-centered design looks like in local government. We’ll talk about why it’s important to collaborate with communities, the conditions that are required to practice community-centered design, and what it looks like in action.
NYC Service Design Network
June 8, 2021
Shifting From Practitioner Centered to Community-Led
Co-presenters
Mari Nakano Director of Design, NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, Service Design Studio
Sophonie Milande Joseph, MUP, PhD Community Planner, TakeRoot Justice
Kyla Massey 2021 Program Designer and Coordinator
Marquis Jenkins 2021 Designed by Community Fellow
Arabia Simeon 2021 Designed by Community Fellow
Description
COVID-19 disrupted everything from the ground up for communities and our local government’s approach to disaster relief. Now with the pandemic as a background, we will explore how service designers can bend the arc of their work in order to create sustainable, equitable, and community-led approaches in recovery and hereafter.
Code for America Summit
May 12, 2021
Moving equity forward with the pandemic as a catalyst
Description
How has the impact of the pandemic allowed for unprecedented conditions that help us shift to a more equitable community engagement? This panel focused on three municipalities who took diverging steps.
Co-presenters
Mari Nakano Director of Design, NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, Service Design Studio
Sophonie Milande Joseph, MUP, PhD Community Planner, TakeRoot Justice
Ben Gordon US Projects Lead, Citizens Lab
Milzy Carrasco Director of Community Engagement, City of Lancaster PA
Steve Lund Senior Product Manager, Nava PBC