Public Health + Social Impact Design
that moves people to act
Community-designed brochure transforming lived experiences into tools for dialogue, empathy, and social change.
2019
A group of Venezuelans in Oregon wrote, designed, and launched the ‘Ask A Venezuelan’ campaign in the Portland area. This campaign includes a flyer and buttons to raise awareness about the humanitarian and political crises affecting their family and friends back home in Venezuela. As the situation in Venezuela grew in importance in U.S. national news, many individuals, not Venezuelans themselves, voiced their own perspective about the current state in this Caribbean country, without inviting the Venezuelan perspective to the table.
ROLE: Graphic Designer
PURPOSE: Educate the general public about the Venezuelan perspective on the humanitarian and political crises in Venezuela.
OUTCOME: Venezuelans in Oregon distributed the flyer in downtown Portland and opened conversations with their community about the crises back home. The campaign was shared with the Venezuelan human rights organization, Un Mundo Sin Mordaza, and other groups in Venezuela across the U.S.