Our guest for this episode is Kaleena Sales, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Chair of the Department of Art & Design at Tennessee State University and Doctoral candidate in Design at North Carolina State. She co-hosts Design Observer’s The Design of Business with Omari Souza. She co-authored the book Extra-Bold and her most recent book, CENTERED: People and Ideas Diversifying Design will be published on October 24, 2023.

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Our guest for this episode is Dr. Jeanine Weekes Schroer, a philosopher of race and feminist theory and an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UMD and currently Head of the Department of Geography & Philosophy.  Her teaching and research concern the ethics and politics of social oppression, including the metaphysics of race and racism; and empirical and experimental philosophical approaches to racism, sexism, and ethics. She has been a part of the Racism Untaught advisory Team since 2018.

“Oppression is not merely the province of corrupt governments and tyrants; nor is it always committed by power-hungry conspirators. Modern oppression is the result of the acts of numerous individuals, each of whom may or may not intend to oppress or even to harm.” —Dr. Jeanine Weekes Schroer

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Our guest for this episode is Gaby Hernandez, an Endowed Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Arkansas. She is a multidisciplinary social designer and design researcher with expertise in Social & Information Design, Design Research & Ethnography, Visual Storytelling, Cultural Identity, Heritage, & Equity, and Decolonization, Pluriversality, & Horizontality. 

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“Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. It’s not simply that there’s a race problem here, a gender problem here, and a class or LBGTQ problem there. Many times, that framework erases what happens to people who are subject to all of these things.” - Kimberlé Crenshaw 

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“Design practice can be understood as the medium between values and ideals of a culture and the tangible reality.” — Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel and Dr. Renata Leitão

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Our guest for this episode is Antionette Carroll, the Founder, President, and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit educating and deploying youth to challenge racial and health inequities impacting Black and Latinx populations. She is a social entrepreneur, equity designer, international speaker and educator, and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Specialist. Also, just an overall amazing, thoughtful, empathetic, and passionate human being who we are privileged to know and keke with. We quote Antionette at the beginning of Chapter 1, "Like all systems, systems of oppression, inequality, and inequity are by design. Therefore, they can be redesigned." – this statement has been used quite a bit in equity design work, do you want to expand on this statement? How did this statement come about.

“Like all systems, systems of oppression, inequality, and inequity are by design. Therefore, they can be redesigned.” —Antionette Carroll

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Laker’s vision of collective liberation is beautiful. We had a wonderful conversation about her work as a designer and educator at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a co-editor of the book The Black Experience in Design. She is passionate about community-engaged work and the interdisciplinarity of design. You will want to hear her beautiful explanation of collective liberation. 

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This episode of Racism Untaught features an interview with Dr. Cheryl D. Miller. Dr. Miller wrote the foreword of our book and is a designer, Christian minister, writer, artist, theologian, and decolonizing historian. She is known for her major contributions to racial and gender equality in the design field and for establishing one of the first Black women-owned design firms in New York City in 1984. 

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This episode is in collaboration with the Works In Process, The How Creatives Work podcast.

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