Visiting Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design
Jennifer is a writer, educator and communications strategist currently serving as Visiting Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design. She has also taught at FIT, California College of the Arts, and at the School Visual Arts, where she taught design writing as a tool for analyzing themes in design history, as well as thesis writing. She has been published in The New York Times, Eye on Design, DMI: Journal, Core77, and on Medium, and is also an avid, long-form letter writer. In 2020, Jennifer guest edited a special issue on policing for the Design Museum magazine.
She has worked for a number of design and design-adjacent institutions including Pentagram, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, and the AIGA. As a museum educator at the American Federation of Arts (AFA) in the 1990s, Jennifer wrote educational materials for school groups and led Art Access II, an initiative designed to increase museum attendance among under-served communities through education and community outreach. She earned her M.Ed. in Communication and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University where her thesis, “Space, Time, and Objects,” proposed pedagogies of equity in the art history curriculum.
She served as development editor for The Black Experience in Design, with Anne Berry (managing editor), Kelly Walters (creative director), Kareem Collie, Penina Laker, and Lesley-Ann Noel.
Panel Discussion – Intersectional Us: The Black Experience in Design
(presenting virtually to all attendees)
There has never been a time when Black designers were not shaping, creating, packaging, distributing, and celebrating through, with, and by design. Black designers from across the diaspora have been integral to the development of our professions and practices, contributing to the design of typography and posters, chairs and wearables, modes of transport and methods of care, financial services, and speculative futures. This panel will subsequently focus on the diversity of experiences and backgrounds within a so-called “Black Experience” that have informed and will continue to inform the design profession.
In this session you will learn:
