National Alliance for
Partnership in Equity
2024
Participatory Design Project
Consulted with National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) to facilitate a participatory design process with the organization’s student community and staff. Working along side Francois Odenthal-Cruz a NAPE Peer Leader and Educator and NAPE staff member Kayla Santana-Linares, Professional Development Manager, designs were co-created for the 2024 Equity Leadership Academy Report and User Guide. The entire design was inspired by Francois poem titled “2 Words I Don’t Know Yet”
It is always an honor to engage community in the design process from start to finish, facilitating a unique approach towards design decisions, style creation, and an emotional esthetic that is inclusive, inspiring, and empowering.
Community-Based Participatory Design Consulting
It all begins with community.
Working with NAPE staff to identify members from their community to serve as co-designers.
Facilitating meetings to inform, educate, and share the design thinking process.
Creating a comfortable and inclusive environment that encourages participants to engage in expressing their perspectives and theme choices.
Conducting design workshops so community participants can generate sketches for design layouts, create color palettes, and make font selections.
Designing evaluation a feedback sessions to assure that all ideas and thoughts were captured and included in the final design.
Take a look! Click here for a PDF version of the entire report!
