Becky Slogeris

Associate Director, MICA Center for Social Design

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Becky Slogeris is a Baltimore-based designer and educator who uses human-centered design to help people of all ages create change in their communities. She is the Associate Director of the Center for Social Design at Maryland Institute College of Art and teaches an after school social design program for Baltimore high school students at Wide Angle Youth Media. She also created My Baltimore Book, a curriculum designed to engage Baltimore City Public School students in understanding how cities are made and becoming local changemakers.

Her work touches many of the most pressing challenges in Baltimore – from public health to public policy to public education – and engages some of the city’s most vulnerable residents in developing their own responses to systems that have been deliberately crafted to exclude them. She seeks to blend technical expertise and lived experience to create processes and products that work for all stakeholders.

Past partners include Baltimore City Health Department, Behavioral Health System Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Center for Child and Community Health Research, Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore Urban Debate League, USDA, FEMA, Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Real Food Farm, Sandy Hook Promise, Teach for All, and Teach for America.

She is a graduate of MICA with a BFA in graphic design and an MA in Social Design, where her thesis work focused on designing curriculum for teachers and equipping students with tools to create change in their communities.