Jessica Garcia Fritz  (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, the Design Justice liaison for architecture in the College of Design, an Affiliate Faculty for American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, and co-director of LAB-OR. As a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (Itazipco Lakota), her cross-disciplinary teaching and research challenge architecture’s role in nation-state building through specification writing and the extraction of material territories in indigenous lands.

Terresa Moses (she/her) is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown people through art and design. She is the Creative Director at Blackbird Revolt and an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and the inaugural Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota. As a community engaged scholar, she created Project Naptural and co-created Racism Untaught. She serves as an Advisory Board Member with the Black Liberation Lab.

The Design Justice Collective is open to all students and employees in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

Our vision for Design Justice centers on intentional community relationships which support anti-racist culture shifts, decolonized pedagogy, and the liberation of underinvested communities within design academia and industry. We ask that you answer the following questions to help us better understand your interest in being part of the collective.

The Social Change Ecosystem, by Deepa Iyer, is a framework that guides our work, please find and complete the reflection questions before completing the New Member Questionnaire.