| Details: | 2024-25 Stephen L Barstow Art & Design Lecture Series Dr. Elizabeth "Dori" Tunstall is a distinguished design anthropologist, celebrated author, visionary organizational design leader, consultant, and coach. As the renowned author of "Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook," she is a path-breaker of liberatory approaches that challenge conventional design paradigms that exclude and harm Indigenous, Black, and other cultural communities. With a global career encompassing an Associate Professor of Design Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Swinburne University in Australia, respectively, Dori made history as the first black and black female Dean of a Design Faculty anywhere at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. Her accomplishments have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, notably the 2022 Sir Misha Black Award for Distinguished Service to Design Education, the inaugural BADG of Honour for Design Education from the Black Artists and Designers Guild, and the 2023 SEGD Excellence in Design Education Award. Ever expanding the contexts for libratory joy, Dori has established Dori Tunstall, Inc., a firm dedicated to decolonizing and diversifying institutional processes for companies and organizations through strategic consulting, care-shops, corporate education, and leadership coaching. Website: www.doritunstall.com |
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Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium, Park Library Mount Pleasant, MI |
| Admission: | Free and open to the public |
| Sponsor: | College of the Arts and Media Department of Art & Design |
| Contact: | Department of Art & Design artanddesign@cmich.edu 989-774-3025 |