Announcing the eighth in a series of DJN Member Story Sharing sessions! These are informal sessions for DJN members to talk about their work and how it intersects with design justice and the design justice principles! Be ready to listen, reflect and share.
Date: Wednesday, May 17th
Time: 10am PT (UTC-7), 1pm ET (UTC-4) (note clocks go back this weekend for some parts of the world - please adjust as per your timezone change)
The event will start with presentations from both Rene Benavides and Rachael Dietkus.
Rene Benavides is the founder of Vision to Action (VTA) Collective, a designer with Design x Emergence (D4E) and an experienced leader, facilitator, and coach. Rene finds joy in coaching others and facilitating spaces where individuals and groups engage in radical forms of love, healing, and transformation. She holds a Masters in Social Work (MSW), a Pupil Personnel Services Credential (PPSC) and is a former school and systems leader in the non-profit and education sector. Rene is also a Healing Centered Engagement Practitioner, a former National Equity Project Leading for Equity Fellow, a former Stanford d.school School Retool Fellow, and is currently training in somatic methodology towards International Coach Federation (ICF) certification. In addition to being part of the Design Justice Network, Rene is also a member of the Latinx Center for Excellence in Behavioral Health and the Justice Teams (JTN) California Healers Network.
Please read Rene’s story here.
Rachael Dietkus is an experienced senior-level licensed clinical social worker and trauma professional, systems thinker, design researcher, and strategist. Much of her current work draws from 20+ years of experience as a leader across serious and complex cause-driven health and human rights issues, local-to-federal-level housing advocacy, social work practice, and design education.
Rachael is a fierce advocate for integrating models of care and for thoughtfully and ethically including social (and other care) workers in design. She is the founder of Social Workers Who Design and works closely with designers worldwide to help build their trauma literacy and humility throughout the entire design research process.
Please read Rachael’s story here.
REGISTER yourself for the session here. These sessions will be shared only on Slack, and the DJN member's email list as participation is for DJN members - we posted (and will continue to) previous sessions on our YouTube channel!