Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design at Yale University School of Art, received a BA in art history from Barnard College, Columbia University and a MFA in the graphic design area of study at Yale University School of Art, as well as honorary doctorates from California College of the Arts and Moore College of Art. She is on the first list of 40 honored as the most influential people in design by I-D, and in 2004 Sheila was awarded the American Institute of Graphic Arts gold medal awarded since 1920 to individuals who have set standards of excellence over a lifetime of work. Her award winning print graphics are in the special collections of museums and libraries here and abroad as are her site-specific public artworks. Whether in print or permanent materials, Sheila specializes in the inclusion of local populations and multiple perspectives in her work.

Sheila was a MPP juror.

Rebecca Lieberman

Rebecca is a Brooklyn-based designer and artist who works across disciplines and materials, from websites and brand identities, to videos and performances. After earning her degree from Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies department, Rebecca worked as a Designer at Purpose, where she designed brand identities, websites and civic engagement platforms for major nonprofits and socially-driven corporate campaigns. Currently, she designs digital experiences and brand expressions for progressive brands and businesses as a means to create community and foster social change. She thinks screenshots are the medium of the future, and she believes in the radical potential of animated GIFs. www.rebeccalieberman.com

Rebecca was a 2013-2014 Public Access Design Fellow.

Kelvin Lockett and Leon Richardson

Kelvin and Leon, from the St. John’s Recreation Center in Crown Heights, were part of the “What the Cell?” crew.

The Longshore Worker’s Coalition

The Longshore Worker’s Coalition (LWC) is a movement of ILA members and retirees organizing to build a stronger and more democratic longshore union. They have ports up and down the East and Gulf Coasts. They were partners with CUP on The Cargo Chain MPP.

Students from Lotto Zone

“Lotto Zone” is a collaboration of The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), the Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP), and high school students from all over New York City. Those students are: Khassandria Chin, Jasmine Downs, Mehnaz Sultana, Elizabeth Adesanya, Shakira Ali, Julien Nizam, Berhtier Francois, and Horace Trim

Sarah Ludwig

Sarah Ludwig is the Co-Director of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, a leading advocate on community equity and financial justice issues. Since founding NEDAP in 1995, she has worked with hundreds of grassroots groups to develop local organizing and advocacy strategies to address redlining and lending discrimination. Sarah co-leads New Yorkers for Responsible Lending, a state-wide coalition of more than 140 community and consumer groups and community financial institutions dedicated to combating predatory lending practices. Sarah was a 2000 fellow in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Generation Leadership Program, and in 2002 received the Union Square Award. In 2004, she was selected as a Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World awardee. Sarah recently completed a 3-year term on the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council, and serves on the boards of directors of the Consumer Federation of America and North Star Fund. In December 2008, she received New York Lawyers for the Public Interest’s Felix A. Fishman Award, for “her exceptional service on behalf of low income communities.”

Sarah was a prior MPP juror and is currently working with CUP on the MPP about Banks on the Fringe. 

Ellen Lupton

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. She has produced numerous exhibitions as curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992. An author of numerous books and articles on design, she is a public-minded critic, frequent lecturer, and AIGA Gold Medalist.

Ellen was a MPP juror.

Mads Lynnerup

Mads Lynnerup responds to politics and everyday life using a range of media including silk-screen, drawing, video, sculpture, and performance. His work has been exhibited at venues such as SFMOMA, MoMA PS1, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mori Art Museum to mention a few. He resides in Brooklyn, NY and Copenhagen and holds an MFA from Columbia University, NY.

Monique MacLeod

Monique MacLeod is an artist, writer and educator currently working as Education Coordinator with the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. A founding member of the Toronto-based Radical Education Research Collective (RERC), she has also developed and led art- and design-based programs with schools, community organizations and museums. She worked with CUP on “Store Stories” while completing her MEd research at York University, and also holds a BFA from Concordia University.

Students from Making the Grade

Students from Lyons Community School worked on an Urban Investigation about who makes decisions around restaurant grades. Those students were Joshua Arroyo, Gipsy Bisono Ramirez, Dayquan Cogdell, Jason Fernandez, Armanie Fing, Jamal Grainger, Aimee Hernandez, Yuleidy Lugo, Erica Marshall, Esmerlyn Mesa Regla, Kimberly Ponce, Justino Rodriguez, Chardhil Spratley, Gabriella Tinsley, Cristian Tolentino, and Jonathan Trivino.

Tamara Maletic

Tamara is a principal at Linked by Air, which she and Dan Michaelson founded in 2005. The studio specializes in the design and production of public space both physical and online. Their clients include The Whitney Museum of American Art, AIGA, Do-Ho Suh, MOS Office, ArtAsiaPacific, Public Art Fund and Yale University. Tamara holds an M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Yale University School of Art and she teaches typography class at Parsons. She worked with CUP on the website for Making Policy Public, and together with Lana Cavar, on the MPP Immigrants Beware! Linked by Air has designed CUP’s new website, which they truly enjoyed working on.

Faizah Malik

Faizah Malik is an attorney and social justice advocate. The daughter of South Asian Muslim immigrants, Faizah grew up in Southern California and went to school in New England and the Midwest before settling in Brooklyn. Currently, she is Legislative Counsel at the New York City Council where she works on public housing and housing-related policy and legislation. Prior to joining the City Council, she was Counsel and Manager of Special Projects at Single Stop USA, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping people access the safety net. Faizah has also worked at at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, and the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Michigan. She is a member of the Council of Urban Professionals and the Muslim Bar Association of New York. Faizah graduated from Brown University and the University of Michigan Law School, where she received the Jane L. Mixer Memorial Award for her contributions to advancing the cause of social justice. 

Pratima Mani

• Pratima Mani is a graphic designer with roots in print and illustration and a focus on information design. She is a proponent of thoughtful, user-based work that helps deliver visibility to important social issues, and believes that successful design is less about pixel perfection, and more about exploration and prototyping in service of creating an engaging experience, facilitating an interaction or telling a compelling story.

MANY

MANY is a design studio based in New York City, founded by Christina Beard and Andrew Shea. MANY develops solutions in a range of mediums for a variety of clients. They have collaborated on projects since meeting at Maryland Institute College of Art, where they earned their MFA in graphic design. Both are active design educators and writers.Shea’s recently published new book, Designing for Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Graphic Design features projects and strategies to help designers work more effectively with communities.Their individual design work and writing has been featured in Core77, AIGA, Designer’s Review of Books, Communication Arts, HOW, and Change Observer, among others. They are committed to creating meaningful design that positively impacts society and they partner with people and organizations who share that passion.

Sam Marks

Sam Marks was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Brown University, Sam founded Summerbridge at The Town School, an educational enrichment program for motivated NYC public school students (now called Breakthrough New York). He received a Masters in Public Policy & Urban Planning from the Harvard Kennedy School and then entered the community development field, working at WHEDCo in the South Bronx and at the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation. He is currently the executive director of LISC New York City. He joined CUP’s board in 2011.