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  • Christine Gaspar is a designer and planner with over 15 years of experience in community engaged design practice. Since 2009, she has been CUP’s Executive Director.

    Before that, she was Assistant Director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio in Biloxi, Mississippi, where she provided architectural design and community planning services to low-income communities of color recovering from Hurricane Katrina. She is a founding member of the Design Futures Leadership Forum Advisory Board and holds Masters in Architecture and in Urban Planning from MIT and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from Brown University.

    As a first generation American whose parents worked as a domestic worker and in a factory, she experienced some of the ways marginalized communities face barriers to accessing rights, services, and a political voice and deeply believes in CUP’s mission to change that. She is also deeply committed to expanding who has access to design and how it is used as a tool for community-led change.

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    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-center-for-urban-pedagogy-cup-

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  • Gordon talks to Diane Domeyer, Executive Director of The Creative Group, about in-demand design skills, the need women and minorities in creative leadership positions,, and why it's a job seeker's market.

    Diane Domeyer is the executive director at The Creative Group, a creative staffing firm. She has spent over 24 years at Robert Half, helping to connect interactive, design, marketing, and public relations professionals to the companies that want to hire them. Diane is called upon often to provide career and workplace advice and present on hiring and management topics. She is passionate about the creative industry and loves working with organizations and individuals alike on career and workplace trends and opportunities.

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    This episode was produced by Sasha Kaye-Walsh.

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  • Gordon talks to Robin Colangelo, Global Director of Creative Services at law firm White & Case, about creative leadership, design education, and the challenges of working inhouse.

    Robin is experienced in developing brand, marketing and creative strategy with extensive in-house leadership expertise building new teams and processes. She has led several rebrand efforts and also writes and speaks on creative leadership topics throughout the industry. In her current role, Robin leads a global in-house creative team for White & Case, where she manages the visual identity and oversees a diverse team across six offices and five countries. Robin's team of creative professionals design and produce all touch points to support the Firm's strategic goals; from marketing collateral, branding, digital, social media to video and animation.

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  • Gordon talks to Brett Traylor, cofounder and senior partner at creative agency Thinkso, about growing up in a printing family, designing for good, and the derivation of his firm's name.

    Brett cofounded Thinkso and, as senior partner, provides creative leadership on every project. He has attracted a diverse clientele of corporate, cultural, and nonprofit organizations with his conceptual strength and bold execution. Throughout his career, Brett has worked on high-profile projects for a variety of clients. His work has been widely acclaimed in Communication Arts, Print, ID, Wired, Metropolis, and The New York Times. His work is included in the permanent collection of SF MoMA and has garnered an array of awards. He has been recognized by AIGA, SEGD, the New York Art Directors Club, Black Book AR100, REBRAND 100, and has twice been nominated for a British Design and Art Direction Award. Brett is a past GDUSA Person To Watch.

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  • Gordon talks with Megan Flood of boutique design studio Marine Lane about design school, bipartisan politics and her love of Serendipity ice cream.

    Megan Flood is CEO, Founder and Creative Director of NYC-based design studio Marine Lane. Under Megan's leadership, the firm continually creates compelling and award-winning work for a range of clients. A past GDUSA Person To Watch, Megan is a regular guest speaker at her alma mater, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and Parsons The New School for Design.

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    This episode was produced by Sasha Kaye-Walsh.

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  • Host Gordon Kaye speaks with Janet Odgis, president and creative director of Odgis + Company, an award-winning, woman-owned design firm based in New York City, that has worked with some of the world's most prestigious corporations.

    Janet Odgis is President and Creative Director at Odgis + Co., an award-winning, woman-owned branding firm in New York City. She founded Odgis + Co. in 1985 after receiving her MFA from Yale University. Previously, she had been a Special Projects Designer at Random House, Knopf and Vintage and art directed and designed in the advertising, pharmaceutical and magazine sales promotion industries. She has taught graphic design for five years at Parsons The New School for Design and for 12 years at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Janet believes good design is essential for human happiness and her goal is to make business beautiful.

    Read Janet's HuffPost blog here.

    Find out more about Odgis + Co: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter & Instagram: @odgisandco

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  • Host Gordon Kaye speaks with Scott Starrett, co-founder and creative director of Tandem Design, the firm responsible for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 2018 campaign design.

    Scott Starrett is co-founder and creative director at Tandem in New York City. As a child he was fascinated by the fact that everything in the man-made world is made up of a series of ideas and choices. He realized human beings were making it up as they went...and he wanted in on it.

    Tandem's Instagram: @tandem.nyc

    Scott's Instagram: @gaptoothgrin

    Find out more:

    Ocasio-Cortez website: https://ocasio2018.com/splash

    Hidalgo website: https://www.linahidalgo.com/

    Brand New Congress: https://brandnewcongress.org/

    Progressive Hacknight: http://www.progressivehacknight.org/

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