Jon Chen graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (2023) in Sculpture with a minor in Computation, Technology, and Culture (CTC), previously at the New York Times R&D, Something Special Studios, and The Google Creative Lab. Jon has been supporting the included team as web development lead on the Emmett Till Memory Project and The Black Press@200.jon-chen.com

Janette Chi is a graphic designer based in Rhode Island, holding a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and over a decade of experience creating purposeful, strategic designs. Janette has supported included working on branding, collateral, and web extensions for RISD, Harvard Medical School. She has transformed her clients' ideas into compelling visual narratives that inspire action and amplify their message. janettechi.com

Zoë Pulley is a designer and maker who utilizes stuff to surface the seemingly ordinary stories of Black folks through mixed media, typography, and audio. She defines “stuff” as artifacts, both physical and nonphysical, that may be relegated as unimportant to some—as merely stuff. Zoë Pulley serves as the creative lead on the Emmett Till Memory Project and brings a fresh and grounded dimension to anything she puts her hand on.zoepulley.com

Bobby Joe Smith III is a Black and Indigenous designer and media artist from the Hunkpapa and Oohenumpa Lakota tribes. Design, computation, performance, writing, and lens-based image-making are mediums of expression and inquiry he turns to often. His creative practice is rooted in the ongoing decolonial and abolitionist movements led by Indigenous communities on Turtle Island and across the Black diaspora.

Dougal Henken is a design practitioner probing the boundaries between simulation and "reality.” His work, spanning print, video, and digital media, explores the genuine feelings that arise between man and machine in an increasingly artificial world. He is himself a total fabrication.decreation.studio

Thank you to the rest of our current team: Chelsea Alexander, Judy Allen, Terésa Carter, Cole Johnson, Emma Caamano.

Collaborators

Stephanie Hu
Tamia Jackson
Alejandro Molestino
Claudia Morris

Jamesly Saint-Louis
Dinh Traung
Think Box 312