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Our authors and lecturers come from a globally-dispersed community of mostly womxn and non-binary designers, writers, journalists, editors, researchers, educators, artists, activists, and beyond.
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Nina Paim
(she/her) Curator, Editor & Researcher, Brazil/Switzerland

Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins
(she/her) Artist & Researcher, Brazil/Germany

Maya Ober
(she/her) Activist, Educator, Designer & Researcher

Cherrypye
(she/her) Designer, Writer & Marketing Strategist, Trinidad & Tobago

Naïma Ben Ayed
(she/her) Type designer & Graphic Designer, France

Floriane Misslin
(they/them) Researcher & Sociologist, France/United Kingdom

Danah Abdulla
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Palestine/Canada/U.K.

Mio Kojima
(she/her) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Germany/Japan

Tessel ten Zweege
(she/her) Journalist & Activist, The Netherlands

Franca López Barbera
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Argentina/Germany

Keyna Eleison
(she/her) Writer, Researcher, Shaman, Narrator, Singer & Ancestral Chronicler

Iskander Guetta
(he/him) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Morocco

For Us, With Us, By Us
A conversation series by SWANA designers, practitioners, educators, and researchers

Eliot C. Gisel
(they/them) Journalist, Editor & Researcher, Switzerland

Evan Nicole Brown
(she/her) Writer, Reporter & Editor, United States

Hayfaa Chalabi
(she/her) Designer & Illustrator, Iraq/London

Neo Maditla
(she/her) Journalist, Editor & Content Strategist, South Africa

Mujgan Abdulzade
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Azerbaijan/Germany

Sria Chatterjee
(she/her) Art Historian & Environmental Humanities Scholar, India/United Kingdom

Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton
(she/her) Artist, Educator, Designer, & Researcher, United States

Heba Daghistani
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, United Arab Emirates

Isabel Duarte
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Portugal/United Kingdom

Sophie Thurner
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Germany
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Inteza Shariar
(he/him) Architect, Designer & Artist, Bangladesh

Dries Rodet
(he/him) Architect, France/Belgium/Switzerland

Diana Campbell Betancourt
(she/her) Curator & Researcher, Brussels/Dhaka

Prem Krishnamurthy
(he/him) Designer, Curator, Writer & Teacher, Germany/United States

Les Mots de Trop
Activism & Graphic Design Collective, France

Lucas LaRochelle
(they/them) Designer & Researcher, Canada

Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Fashion Curator, Creative Producer, African Fashion Advocate & Lecturer, Uganda/Germany

Lauren Williams
(she/her) Designer, Organizer, Researcher & Educator, United States

Tai Linhares
(she/her) Designer, Filmmaker & Visual Artist, Brazil/Germany

Bec Wonders
(she/her) Historian, Writer & Illustrator, UK/Canada

Tanveer Ahmed
(she/her) Design Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom

Imad Gebrayel
(he/him) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Lebanon/Germany

Francisca Khamis Giacoman
(she/her) Artist & Designer, Palestine/Chile/The Netherlands

The Big Fat Bao
(she/they) Illustrator & researcher, India

Lebogang Mokoena
(they/them) Journalist & Researcher, South Africa

Bruna Benevides
(she/her) Activist, Brazil

Sophia Yuet See
(they/them) Multimedia artist, United Kingdom/Austria

Mariachiara De Leo
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, Italy

Zenobia Ahmed
(she/her) Graphic designer & Researcher, Australia

Phoebe Eustance
(they/them) Interdisciplinary Artist-Researcher, United Kingdom

Yanchi Huang
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, Taiwan/United States

Noemi Parisi
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland

Pauline Piguet
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Switzerland

Fanny Maurel
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, France

Carolyn Kerchof
(she/her) Writer & Designer, United States

Ghalia Elsrakbi
(she/her) Designer, researcher & educator, Syria/Egypt

Amy Gowen
(she/her) Researcher, Writer, Editor & Curator, United Kingdom/The Netherlands

Barbora Demovičová
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Slovakia/Germany

Klaudia Mazur
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Germany

Eugénie Zuccarelli
(she/her) Designer, France

Dorsa Javaherian
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Iran/Germany

Luana de Almeida
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Brazil/Germany

Helena Ramos
(she/her) Cultural Manager & Producer, Brazil

Clara Amante
(she/her) Researcher, Author & Organizer, Portugal

Delphine Bedel
(she/her) Artist, Lecturer, Writer & Publisher, France/The Netherlands

Nina Reis
(she/her) Designer and Researcher, Brazil

Sabrina Stallone
(she/her) Social Anthropologist, Switzerland

Katharina Brenner
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Germany

Silva Baum
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Germany

Loraine Furter
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Belgium

Elham Namvar
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, United Arab Emirates

Maryam Fanni
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Educator & Researcher, Sweden

Elio Raimondi
(he/him) Graphic Designer, Italy

Vittoria Pugliese
(she/her) Furniture Designer, Italy

Edna Bonhomme
(she/her) Historian, Writer & Interdisciplinary Artist, United States/Germany

Uzma Rizvi
(she/her) Anthropological Archaeologist, Cultural Archaeologist & Curator, Pakistan/United States

Bahia Shehab
(she/her) Multidisciplinary Artist, Designer, Activist & Historian, Egypt

Fiona Cameron
(she/her) Researcher, Curator & Activist Academic

Ramaya Tegegne
(she/her)Artist & Cultural Organizer, Switzerland

Lucia Pietroiusti
(she/her) Curator & Researcher

Rhys Atkinson
Graphic Designer, United Kingdom

Riccardo Righi
(he/him) Designer and Researcher, Italy/United Kingdom

Centre Culturel Suisse
Cultural Centre, Exhibition Space, Theatre & Bookshop, France

Charlie Thomas
(they/them) Writer & Designer, France

Ece Canlı
(she/her) Researcher, Artist & Musician, Portugal/Turkey

Mauricio Vargas
(he/him) Designer & Researcher, United States

Michael Bojkowski
(he/him) Designer, Writer & Educator, Australia

Rachel So Dam Jung
(she/her) South Korean Graphic Designer, United Kingdom/Korea

Aimi Hamraie
(they/them) Designer & Disability Researcher, Iran/United States

Marwa Fatafta
(she/her) Digital Rights Activist & Researcher, Palestine/Germany

Morehshin Allahyari
(she/her) Activist, Artist, Writer & Educator, Iran/United States

Maryam Mustafa
(she/her) Computer Scientist & Human-Computer Interaction Researcher, Pakistan

Timnit Gebru
(she/her) AI Ethics Researcher, Computer Scientist & Activist, United States

Minna Salami
(she/her) Writer, Feminist Theorist & Lecturer, Nigeria/Finland/Sweden

Iyo Bisseck
(she/her) Activist, Designer, Researcher & Artist, France/Cameroon

Nakeema Stefflbauer
(she/her) Technology Researcher, United States/Germany

Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena
(she/her) Writer, Researcher & Educator, Germany/Sweden

Laya Chirravuru
(she/her) Fashion Designer & Researcher, India/Germany

Nina Jun Yuchi
(she/her) Designer, United States/Narragansett Land

Sherine Salla
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Egypt

Amelie Goldfuß
(she/her) Artist, Designer & Educator, Germany

Natalie Sontopski
(she/her) Sociologist, Historian & Researcher, Germany

Adriana Rojas Víquez
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, United Kingdom

Abigail Schreider
(she/her) Service Designer, Argentina/Germany

Dior Thiam
(she/her) Visual Artist, Germany

Naiara Yumiko
(she/her) Urban Designer & Creative Artworker, Brazil/United Kingdom

Carlotta Trippa
(she/her) Architect & Urban Designer, Italy/United Kingdom

Carmem Saito
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Brazil/Germany/UK

Javier Syquia
(he/him) Designer, USA/Hong Kong/Philippines

Johanna Lewengard
(she/her) Communication Designer & Educator, Sweden

Benedetta Crippa
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Sweden

Engagement Arts NL
Artist-led Movement, The Netherlands

The Racial Justice Student Collective
Student Collective, Switzerland

Gráinne Donohue
(she/her) Organizer & Researcher, France

Ritupriya Basu
(she/her) Design Writer, India

Maria Kruglyak
(she/her) Researcher, Editor & Artist, Portugal/Russia/United Kingdom

Randa Hadi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Kuwait/Unites States

Zoy Anastassakis
(she/her) Designer & Anthropologist, Brazil

Griselda Flesler
(she/her) Researcher & Educator, Argentina

Lesley-Ann Noel
(she/her) Design Educator, United States/Trinidad & Tobago

Divya Rathod
(she/her) Landscape Architect & Design Researcher, India/Germany

Mariangela Beccoi
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Italy/Germany

Sinem Görücü
(she/her) Architect, Designer & Researcher, United Kingdom/Turkey

Jerá Guarani
(she/her) Educator, Activist & Leader, Tenondé Porã Indigenous Land

Tereza Bettinardi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Editor, Brazil

Aasawari Kulkarni
(she/her) Designer, Educator & Writer, USA/India

Pallavi Keshri
(she/her) Visual Artist & Communication Designer, India/Switzerland

Eva Gonçalves
(she/her) Graphic designer, Researcher & Educator, Portugal/Germany

Hamza Bashandy
(he/him) Architect & Game Designer

Nada Ezzeldin
(she/her) Independent Designer, Egypt

Noura Tafeche
(she/her) Artist & Independent Researcher, Italy/Palestine

Zainab Marvi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher, Illustrator & Educator, Pakistan/Germany

Leonardo de Vasconcelos Santana
(he/him) Designer, wishful Writer & Researcher, Brazil/United Kingdom

Mahmoud Keshavarz
(he/him) Writer & Researcher, Sweden/Iran

Isabella Barroso
(she/her) Bruxa-ciborgue, Technologist, Researcher & Journalist, Brazil

Mirna Bamieh
(she/her) Artist, Palestine

Gabriela Aquije Zegarra
(she/her) Architect & Researcher, Switzerland/Peru

Mayar El Bakry
(she/her/non) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt

Eva Jack
(she/her) Artist & Educator, Scotland

Tina Omayemi Reden
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Artist, Switzerland

Amanda Lorentzon
(she/her/non) Transdisciplinary Designer, Sweden/United States

Orly Noy
(she/her) Editor, Activist & Translator, Iran/Israel

Shirin Ebadi
(she/her) Activist & Lawyer, Iran/United Kingdom

Danielle Harris
(she/they) Fashion Designer & Educator, Switzerland

Bibiana Oliveira Serpa
(she/her) Design Researcher, Educator & Activist, Brazil

Isabelle Winkler
(she/her) Writer & Editor, Germany/Australia

Veronika Larsson
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Writer, Sweden

Vera Sacchetti
(she/her) Design Critic & Curator, Portugal/Switzerland

Karoline Buer
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Norway

Loana Gatti
(she/her) Pluridisciplinary Artist & Researcher, Switzerland

Mani Deepa Barla
(she/her) Industrial Designer, India

Yatharth
(he/him) Researcher, India

Cooperativa de Diseño
Political Design Organization, Argentina

Antônio Bispo dos Santos
(he/him) Poet, Writer, Teacher & Political Activist, Brazil

Mindy Seu
(she/they), Designer, Technologist & Researcher, United States

Benjamin Ryser & Dorothy Wong Ka Chung 黃加頌 (o!sland)
Artist duo, Hong Kong & Switzerland

Ren Loren Britton
(they/them) Artist & Researcher, Germany/in Online Interdependencies

Mohamed Gaber
(he/him) Type Designer, Graphic Designer & Visual Artist, Egypt

Maha Akl
(she/her) Type Designer, Egypt

Sahar Afshar
(she/her) Typeface Designer & Printing Historian, Iran/United Kingdom

Victoria Nascimento Veiga
(she/her) Fashion & Shoe Designer, Brazil

Decolonising Design
A group of critical design researchers, artists, and activists

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Feminist Festival of Design and Publishing, Portugal

Iany Gayo
(she/her) Designer, Portugal/Mozambique

Napisa Leelasuphapong
(she/her) Graphic designer & Writer, Thailand

Afonso de Matos
(he/him) Graphic Designer, Portugal

Paola De Martin
(she/her) Scholar Activist & Design Historian, Switzerland/Italy