Antoinette Carroll is a designer and communications specialist that utilizes graphic design as a medium for her social justice activism.

Carroll has worked for several non-profits, companies, political organizations to encourage/foster human rights and social justice work. She has received major accolades in her approach to design as she takes a humanitarian focus to her work.

She created a design process called ‘Equity-Centered Community Design’ that encourages more inclusive problem-solving.

She wants the world to use design – an element that pervades all institutions – as a way to create a more equitable world. She encourages folks to design more equitable realities in their daily lives. She co-founded the Creative Reaction Lab which is a non-profit organization that attempts to train and equip Black and Latinx people to redesign more equitable communities.

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Irene Choi · September 27, 2020 at 10:53 pm

Like the recent response article we read, I think it’s crucial that we understand and acknowledge that the world can be changed–or become a better place–through the incorporation of design, which shouldn’t be a mere artistic tool.

Charlotte Fox · September 30, 2020 at 12:05 am

“You know design is effective when you don’t know it’s there.” That quote links to the idea that appeared in communication models reading that design is absorbed into culture. But I think Antoinette Carroll took it a step further by saying that systemic racism is design as well, and that it could be combatted through transformative design.

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