【International Women’s Day Series】 Advocating for Equity through Art and Design

Tokyo College YouTube Channel

What does advocating for equity look like in art and design? Join us as we chat with De Nichols, a Senior UX Researcher at YouTube and social practice artist who is helping communities engage with societal issues in equity in the United States. 

Speaker:

De Nichols (Senior Product Inclusion UX Researcher at YouTube and Core Organizer of Design As Protest)(she/her/hers)

De Nichols produces interactive experiences, digital media, public art, and social initiatives that mobilize designers and creative changemakers to address injustices within the built environment. Currently, De is a Senior User Experience Researcher of Product Inclusion at YouTube. She additionally serves as a Core Organizer of the global Design as Protest collective.

Moderator:

Eureka Foong, Ph.D. (Tokyo College Postdoctoral Fellow)(she/her/hers)

Eureka Foong is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo. Her research seeks to understand the design of social technologies that promote equity in emerging non-standard forms of work, such as remote work and online freelancing. In addition to academic research, Eureka has experience managing software design and research projects at Facebook and Adobe in the US and Piktochart in Malaysia.