Antionette D. Carroll
Understanding Identity, Power, & Equity in Design Leadership
99U, 2020
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Systems do what they are designed to do. Oppressive systems can, thus, be redesigned for equitable outcomes.
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Antionette Carroll, founder, president and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, believes systems that perpetuate inequality and oppression do so by design. Therefore, designers dedicated to justice have an opportunity: to partner with disadvantaged communities to redesign the systems to produce more equitable outcomes. In this inspiring talk, given at Adobe’s career resource and annual conference, 99U, Carroll shares her own journey to becoming an equity designer and calls upon the design community at large to reexamine its biases and approaches to the profession.
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About the Speaker
Antionette D. Carroll runs Design + Diversity LLC and is 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. 99U is Adobe’s career resource and annual conference for creatives.
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