After spending the last mini-season discussing how municipal divides impact racial equity, we wanted to examine equity from another angle… design.
Because if racism is designed, what does it mean to design toward racial equity?
To answer that question, we teamed up with , the local chapter of the largest oldest and largest professional membership organization for design, to host an evening of stories and discussion with St. Louis-based designers: , , and .
You can find the stories and discussion in the video above.

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— Jia Lian Yang at Designing Equity
Jia Lian Yang (she/they)
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— Jayvn Solomon
Jayvn Solomon (he/him) AIGA St. Louis Vice President
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— MK Stallings
MK Stallings (he/him) UrbArts Founder
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— Antionette Carroll
Antionette Carroll (she/her) Creative Reaction Lab Founder
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— Erika Harano
Erika Harano (they/she) Movement Artist and Designer
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— Anna Heinze
Anna Heinze (she/her) AIGA St. Louis President
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— Jia Lian and Javyn
Jia Lian and Javyn
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— Antionette and Erika
Antionette and Erika
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— Lauren Brown and Tim Lloyd at Designing Equity
Lauren Brown (she/her) and Tim Lloyd (he/him)
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— Lauren Brown at Designing Equity
Lauren Brown
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— Anna Heinze at Designing Equity
Anna Heinze
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