Our mission is to create anti-racist design approaches through cross-collaboration. Our vision for design justice centers on intentional community relationships that support anti-racist culture shifts, decolonized pedagogy, and the liberation of historically underinvested communities within design academia and industry.

Our fund supports design justice initiatives within the College of Design including; design justice courses, scholarships, and events.

The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is located on traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of the Dakota People. We are committed to recognizing the complex history of this land by honoring the truth of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement that bring us together. We acknowledge the need to end the violence against missing and murdered Indigenous women– a local and national epidemic which can be traced back to the arrival of European colonizers across Turtle Island. We acknowledge and fight against the legacy of white supremacy and culture of anti-Black racism, which has led to the murders of Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, George Floyd, Daunte Wright, Winston Smith, Amir Locke, and countless other Black Americans across this nation. Black lives matter. We stand with our Hmong, Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander communities against the rise of xenophobic violence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We acknowledge the multiple genocides happening across the globe today—destroying many national, ethnic, racial, and religious groups—affecting many of us on a personal and global scale. We recognize that words are not enough and we remain committed to the work of eradicating the injustices against all Black, Indigenous, and people of color caused by systemic racism.