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Jennifer Rittner
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Published in Age of Awareness

·Jun 7, 2021

The Failures of DEI

One Instructor’s Story of Inequity at the School of Visual Arts — In the Fall of 2020, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York hired a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Director, the first of its kind at the school, hired at a time when Black racial politics were top of mind for the institution. Among the most pressing concerns the…

Design Education

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The Failures of DEI
The Failures of DEI
Design Education

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Sep 4, 2020

Passing Revisited: Racial Passing and White Supremacy

In the wake of the white supremacist marches in 2017, I wrote a short reflection on racial passing. In that essay I wrote about my Black mother, my white son, and the absurd mythologies of racial purity needed by white supremacists to support their beliefs. …

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Passing Revisited
Passing Revisited

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Published in Future of Design in Higher Education

·Jun 22, 2020

Design Leadership: Now What?

Suggestions for How We Begin to Achieve Equity by Design Co-authored by: Anne H. Berry, Jacqueline Francis, Ricardo Gomes, Alicia Olushola Ajayi, Ajay Revels, Jennifer Rittner, Raja Schaar, David J. Walker, Kelly Walters, Michele Washington (please see below for affiliations) Leaders in the design community have expressed their desire to…

Design

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Design Leadership: Now What?
Design Leadership: Now What?
Design

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Jun 3, 2020

Rewriting SVA’s Statement on Racial Justice

A Proposed Rewrite as A Call to Action Among the many conversations black and brown design educators are having right now, is the question of what we wish our institutions would say in their public statements. While we recognize the good intentions in each of the statements released by our…

Design Education

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Design Education

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Published in UX Collective

·Jun 1, 2020

Design, collective action and American racism

On March 3, 1991, an unarmed man by the name of Rodney King was beaten by police officers in Los Angeles, California during a traffic stop. He was one of the lucky ones. He lived. …

Design

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Design, collective action and American racism
Design, collective action and American racism
Design

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May 30, 2020

Delivered at the School of Visual Arts MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism’s Final Thesis Presentations

May 28, 2020 This afternoon, the department asked if I would be willing to say a few words on the “subject of inclusivity, relative to the thesis work and the state of the world we’re living in.” …

Ethics

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Ethics

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May 8, 2020

THE TYRANNY OF FEAR

Civil Society’s Response to Instinct Over Reason We need to get honest about fear. I know from personal experience how deeply ingrained fear is. How difficult to combat. I have suffered from my own particular phobias for many years. These irrational fears are anxiety-inducing but not based in reality. The threats I feel as a result of…

Ahmaudarbery

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Ahmaudarbery

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Published in The Startup

·Aug 5, 2019

Inclusion, Representation and Equity

A Mandate for Design Education The following essay was written and delivered at the 2018 Design + Diversity conference (founded by Antionette Carroll and Timothy Hykes) in St. Louis. …

Design

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Inclusion, Representation and Equity
Inclusion, Representation and Equity
Design

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Sep 23, 2018

Boys won’t all be Kavanaughs

Maybe this is it. The time when we get to talk about who you are to me. Who I was then and who you maybe thought I was. …

Rape

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Rape

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Jul 9, 2018

Do we really need each other?

Maybe more than you think. The apple you ate. The road you walked along. The toilet you used. The words or wave or nod with which you greeted a neighbor. …

Omidyar

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Do we really need each other?
Do we really need each other?
Omidyar

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