Speaking Engagements

 
 

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.

 

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.

 

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