Date: Friday, November 9, 2:00 pm
Speaker: Cynthia E. Smith
Cynthia E. Smith is the curator for the exhibition “Design for the Other 90%” at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, surveying the growing movement among designers to develop solutions for the more than five billion people across the globe not traditionally served by the professional design community. Most recently she completed a Master’s of Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, integrating her work experience with her advocacy and activism on the issues of human rights and social justice. While at Harvard she co-authored The Politics of Genocide: US Rhetoric vs. Inaction in Darfur for the Kennedy School Review and joined a Graduate School of Design team to plan a new national park in response to the expanding sprawl north of Dallas. Trained as an industrial designer, for the past decade she planned and designed projects for cultural institutions, resulting in numerous award winning projects. A common thread in all of her work is work
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