D CRIT Summer  Intensive

Molly Fulghum Heintz is the Program Chair of the SVA MA Design Research program and the editor at large at Architectural Record, New York. She is a co-founder of the editorial consultancy Superscript and has served as the firm’s managing director since 2012. With Superscript, she has collaborated on strategy, research, and writing projects for a range of design organizations and institutions, including Pentagram, the Museum of Modern Art, and Rockwell Group, in addition to producing conversation series for the Museum of Arts and Design, the Venice Architectural Biennale, and the Oslo Architecture Triennial. Prior to Superscript, Heintz led communications departments at the architecture firms Gensler and Rockwell Group and was a fellow at the Philip Johnson Glass House, where she helped launch the interactive site “Glass House Conversations.” She holds BAs in Classics and Archaeology from Duke University, an MFA in Design Criticism from the School of Visual Arts, and an MA in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University, where her PhD research focuses on narratives attached to design objects. Heintz has edited multiple books and magazines, and is a contributor to Design Observer, Fast Company magazine and The Architect’s Newspaper. Her writing has also appeared in The Art Newspaper, AIGA Voice, and Studies in the Decorative Arts, among other publications.

She co-edited The Education of a Design Writer (Allworth 2025) with Steven Heller, an anthology of outstanding new design writing. Her recent research has focused on design and disinformation, and she presented a related paper, “The Role of Design in the Creation of Fake News,” at the College Art Association Conference.

Adam Harrison Levy
 is a writer and freelance documentary film producer and director. He specializes in the art of the interview. For the BBC he has conducted interviews with a wide range of actors, writers, musicians and film-makers including Meryl Streep, Philip Glass, and Paul Auster. He was the U.S. producer for Selling the Sixties, a cultural history of advertising in New York in the early 1960s and Close Up, about the artist Chuck Close. His directing credits for the BBC include Step Right Up and War Machine. He has produced and directed interviews for films such as Lou Reed Remembered, The Kennedys, and D-Day to Berlin. He is a contributing writer for The Design Observer and wrote the catalog essay for Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945, an exhibition at the International Center for Photography and Saul Leiter: Retrospective at the Deichtohallen, Hamburg. His journalism has appeared in The Huffington Post and The Guardian Weekend Magazine. In 2012 and 2013 he curated the BBC/SVA documentary film festival and in 2012 he was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University. In 2013 and 2104 he is a visiting assistant professor in the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University.

Craig Taylor is the author of New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time and Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now—As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It. His two previous books, Return to Akenfield and One Million Tiny Plays About Britain, were adapted for the stage. He is the editor of the literary magazine Five Dials.

Rob Walker is a journalist and columnist covering technology, design, business, and other subjects. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he writes a column on branding for Fast Company, and has contributed to for Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, Fortune, Marketplace, and many other outlets. He is the coeditor of Lost Objects: 50 Stories about the Things We Miss and Why They Matter, and the author of The Art of Noticing. He is often called on as an expert commentator on the subject of material culture and branding, notably in the documentary Objectified. His newsletter is at robwalker.substack.com.

Eric Schwartau is a writer, editor, and comedian. He pens the Catty Corner column for New York Review of Architecture, where he is a Contributing Editor, and co-founded Talk Hole, a comedy and culture project that began as a live show before evolving into a column for Interview and Gawker. He previously worked as an editor at Taschen and recently directed Steven Phillips-Horst in The Last Mad Man, a one-man show that premiered at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe.

At D-Crit, he serves as Director of Programming & Publications, teaches the Applied Media Workshop, Thesis Development Workshop, and Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive, and edits 2NDFL, the department’s biannual publication. His teaching centers on experimental writing forms, voice and creative development, and the relationship between design and contemporary culture.

A 2025 Google Artists + Machine Intelligence awardee, Eric is developing new frameworks for teaching and writing about AI in design in collaboration with Outland Editor, Brian Droitcour.

Karrie Jacobs is a professional observer of the manmade landscape. Her recent writing has appeared in Curbed, the New York Times, and the MIT Technology Review. She has been a columnist for Metropolis and a contributing editor for Travel + Leisure, Architect, House + Garden and Metropolitan Home. Jacobs was also the founding editor-in-chief of Dwell, the architecture critic of New York Magazine, and the founding executive editor of Benetton’s Colors. She is the author of The Perfect $100,000 House: A Trip Across America and Back in Pursuit of a Place to Call Home (Viking, 2006).

Leital Molad is the head of content development at Pushkin Industries, the audio company that's home to Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History, Broken Record with Rick Rubin, The Happiness Lab, Against the Rules with Michael Lewis, and many more chart-topping podcasts and audiobooks. Previously, she was the executive producer of podcasts at First Look Media (Topic Studios & The Intercept). Before that, Molad spent more than a decade producing radio and podcasts at WNYC, including the Peabody Award-winning arts and culture show Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. She has an MA in journalism from NYU.

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the Eisner-winning author of a critical overview of the work of cartoonist Julie Doucet, as well as a long-standing comics, book, film, and culture critic. Gentrifier: A Memoir is an NPR Best Book and Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes was nominated for a Chicago Review of Books Award and a Lambda Award, was a Chicago Public Library Best Book, and was released in a second edition by Feminist Press. Her award-nominated podcast, My Inevitable Murder, is a true-crime comedy investigation of her own impending demise, and is supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Alexa Mintz is an artist and designer based in Jersey City. Her background spans visual design, public programming, creative operations, and printed matter. She is a current fellow at The Old American Can Factory and has contributed to cultural and print-based initiatives including Jersey Art Book Fair and Newark Zine Fest. Her work has taken shape across roles at ThePrintSpace, Dense magazine, Harsh Collective, and in the Paris studio of artist Julien Marinetti. Alexa holds a BFA in Graphic and Interactive Design from Temple University and studied French at Université Paris-Est Créteil.

Her practice moves through fragments, collisions, and tonal shifts. She uses humor, irony, and visual abrasion to unsettle sentimental or intimate material. Rather than treating memory as stable or nostalgic, she is interested in the strange, shifting, and sometimes absurd structures beneath identity, documentation, and personal history.

Angie Fato (she/her) is a brand designer and editor based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She works at Que Cálido Studio, where she develops brands across industries, covering the full spectrum of identity work: naming, graphic design, storytelling, narrative, positioning, and spatial design. In 2023, she co-founded Azul Pantalla Editorial, an independent publishing house dedicated to handmade zines and experimental publications. Through archiving, curation, and design, Azul Pantalla investigates how images, texts, and materials from and about the internet circulate and transform when translated into print. She is currently deepening her writing and text editing skills to develop a fuller vision of the work Azul Pantalla publishes.

Bailey Davis (she/her) writes, researches, and designs multidisciplinary curriculum as a special educator for public schools. She is based in the Driftless Area. Her artwork has been featured in Sundog Lit and Shots Magazine. She is an upcoming participant in The Stinging Fly’s summer school in Dublin, Ireland. Bailey is fascinated by nonfiction essay writing. She studied studio art at Beloit College. She holds a Master of Arts in Education from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

Bill Roberts (he/him) is an independent technologist based in Brooklyn. Drawn to socially beneficial uses of technology, he has 10 years of software engineering experience on teams spanning healthcare, climate, politics, and education.

He runs Legible Labs, a product studio that helps clients design and build AI applications. As a research engineer, he has coauthored papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences that empirically evaluate the capabilities of AI in educational settings.

An armchair social scientist, his research interests include the sociology of design expertise, computational methods for design research, and design education.

Bill holds a BA in Computer Science and Sociology from Columbia University.

Clara Dudley (she/her) is an art director, visual designer, and illustrator with a strong writing background, based in San Francisco. She currently works freelance, and primarily designs events and brand experiences in the tech and entertainment industries. In her design career, she has worked with clients such as Hulu, Google, Meta, Netflix, Adobe, HBO, and Red Bull. Previously based in Dublin, Ireland, she was closely engaged with the overlapping creative communities there—including independent comic artists, film production companies, illustrators, food writers, and photographers.

Her 2020 lockdown project SITUATED Magazine was born of a passion for the interdisciplinary nature of digital-based editorial content and design, for which she created the brand, website, social artwork, curated content, and wrote long-form pieces on artists and musicians in Ireland, the US, and Canada. She holds a Diploma in Graphic Design from Dublin Institute of Design, and a BA in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Corwin Green (he/him) is a design educator and cultural practitioner based in Brooklyn. He teaches at SVA and Pratt Institute, and has taught at Parsons School of Design, with courses across communication design, research methods, and design as a form of cultural inquiry, from thesis seminars to studio practice. He is the co-founder of Verru Design, a landscape design studio rooted in community-based research and naturalistic planting, and a 2025 SVA Ecology Fellow whose independent project drew connections between designed and natural systems on Governors Island. Corwin is interested in how designed environments shape perception across urban, pedagogical, and ecological contexts. His work has been exhibited at AIA New York’s Center for Architecture and the Pratt Manhattan Gallery. He holds an MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute. Lately, Corwin has been thinking about the liberatory atmosphere of warehouse parties and what they reveal about movement, gathering, and belonging.

Dana Ensing (she/her) is a Denver-based artist and design strategist with a background in interior architecture and hospitality design. Over the past decade, she has designed award-winning restaurants and hospitality environments and currently develops experience-driven design strategies for corporate campuses, universities, and cultural institutions. Her work explores design as a tool for community building, inclusivity, and belonging. Dana is especially interested in how environments—designed, natural, and accidental—shape identity, memory, and shared experience. She is also the co-creator of Hi, I miss you., a community art project designed for catharsis and connection through letter writing.

Gabe Marroquin is a graphic designer and self-taught visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Currently pursuing an MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design, Gabe specializes in visual identity, digital design, creative coding, and experimental artistic practices. He has worked with clients including the Daily Mail, Jackfir, and SolidSky.

Gabe holds a BA in Intercultural Studies from Nyack College and a degree in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design, where he continues to expand and refine his creative practice. Before pursuing his work in design and the arts full-time, he worked as a teaching assistant and educator for Kids in Design, as well as a coordinator and studio technician at 92NY.

Outside of his design practice, Gabe spends his time visiting museums, working from coffee shops, and learning new technical skills through reading, online resources, and workshops.

James Schrader is a New York-based architect whose design work includes urban-scale master plans, public realm strategies, and experimental infrastructure. His work focuses on how street networks, public space, and large-scale developments shape the long-term evolution and everyday experience of cities.

Jen Li (she/her) is an Architecture and Marketing Associate at Alloy Development, where she works on multi-family residential and commercial office projects designed to Passive House standards, including the “Tallest Passive House Building in the World.” She has also served as lead program manager and community ambassador for the “First All-Electric Skyscraper in NYC,” and recently launched her own namesake design and research studio. Jen has traveled as an architectural critic in New York, New Jersey, Cambridge, Boston, and California. Her writing has been featured in the Harvard Real Estate Review (2022), Pairs (2023), and e-flux (ongoing), and her multimedia work has been shown in Milan and Brooklyn. She holds a Master of Architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Originally from the Bay Area, Jen is based in Brooklyn.

Kamna Shastri is a writer, storyteller, producer, and narrative strategist with over a decade of experience working in community journalism and non-profit communications in Seattle. She has previously worked at Seattle’s NPR affiliate, KUOW, as a community engagement producer, and served as a mentor for RadioActive, an award-winning youth journalism program. She has also worked extensively with independent grassroots publications in the Pacific Northwest. She was a mid-career fellow for NPR’s Code Switch and worked with award winning production teams for podcasts such as Seedcast and Ten Thousand Things. Besides her work in this area and with mission-driven organizations, she writes creative nonfiction and poetry with a newer focus on short fiction. In 2025, she started Agents of Reciprocity, a mission-driven narrative strategy initiative, and shares the monthly essay newsletter Micromoments, which reflects on the magic in mundane moments.

Laura Galindo (she/her) is a Florida-based creative director focusing on tourism and hospitality. She has spent the last 10 years at a growing advertising agency, which allowed her to craft her own roles as her interests and the company’s needs changed. She has grown and nurtured interdisciplinary teams, fostering creative talent and pushing creative boundaries within the agency.

As a writer and creative leader, Laura helped define brand identities for destinations such as The Bahamas, St. Kitts, and Nevis, and hotels including the Lotte NY Palace and the St. Regis SF.

In recent years, Laura spearheaded the development and production of documentary-style video series in The Bahamas and St. Kitts. With the aim of presenting a more complete story of the destinations, these hyper-local stories featured interviews with local artists, business owners, historians, chefs, and local celebrities.

Laura led the ideation of the most recent global campaign for The Bahamas: “It’s not one island. It’s a lifetime of them.” The campaign addressed a decades-long marketing problem for the destination: how to educate audiences about a 16-island nation and shift public perception beyond Nassau.

Maria Galindo is an Los Angeles-based brand strategist with a background in design. She helps businesses define their story and clarify their offering. Maria has worked independently for the last five years, following seven years in New York City where she started her career.

As a strategist, she has worked primarily in tech—with clients including Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, and LinkedIn—and in retail, with brands like Dickies and The North Face. Alongside strategy and design-first thinking, Maria brings cultural intelligence and semiotics training to her work.

In 2023, Maria co-founded the York Manor Market, a neighborhood market in Highland Park, Los Angeles. Held twice a month, the market is an event she helps produce end-to-end. As brand manager, she created the identity and oversees ongoing content, vendor interviews, and brand development.

Michelle Chen (she/her) is a writer and researcher based in New York. Having spent most of her life studying and working between cities in China, France, and the US, she is interested in exploring global approaches to architecture, urban planning, and material preservation. Her past work experiences include promoting events for an Asian cultural alliance, guiding art museum tours, and working backstage for the musical Mamma Mia!. She recently graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Urban Studies and Architecture, and will soon travel to Brazil for a research trip on nature-oriented design in Amazonia.

Nana N. Yoshida is a designer and writer. She began making her own clothes as a teenager in Tokyo and moved to Brooklyn, New York, at 18, where she continued to develop her own approach to design and dressmaking. As a costume designer, she has also designed and created garments for recording artists in the music industry. She later published a photography book combining her clothing designs with her writing on fashion trends and social change in Brooklyn over two decades. In 2018, she was awarded an ArtTable Fellowship in the Costume Department and Theater Collection at the Museum of the City of New York. Drawing on her bilingual skills, she worked as a researcher for a Japanese government agency in New York City from 2019 to 2025, producing weekly journalistic reports. She holds an MA in Arts Administration from Baruch College.

Navya Nalla is a community organizer, educator, and designer based in Columbus, Ohio, whose work lives at the intersection of youth empowerment, design, storytelling, and social change. As a co-designer at Zora's House through the Design Equity Program, she participated in a community-led design sprint to reimagine workforce development—bringing lived experience and equity into the room. She has spent years supporting youth empowerment programs at YWCA Columbus and across a range of nonprofits and community institutions throughout the city. A trauma-informed facilitator with over 30 sessions under her belt, Navya brings both rigor and warmth to the work of building community. She serves on the board of Pint Size Protestors, is a Greater Columbus Sister Cities CIRCLE Leadership Fellow, and believes deeply that community is something we design—intentionally, collectively, and with care.

Ruby Powers is a writer and creative producer living in Queens. She has more than five years of experience in the New York contemporary art and design world, working across editorial, project management, and production roles. She currently manages projects for information designer Giorgia Lupi at Pentagram, working with Yale School of Architecture, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, the Gates Foundation, Gallerie d’Italia, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and MTA Arts & Design.

Previously, Ruby directed research and production for artist Tavares Strachan’s Encyclopedia of Invisibility: Pocket Edition, and oversaw Strachan’s exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, Marian Goodman, Perrotin, Water Street Projects, and the Blanton Museum of Art. She has worked on additional projects with the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, the Estate of Barbara Hammer, no place press, Dancing Foxes Press, and Electronic Arts Intermix.

Ruby holds a BA in The Arts from Eugene Lang College.

Sam Reetz (she/her) creates narrative solutions to complex issues. She is the founder and CEO of Millennial Ethics Productions (MEP), a community solutions platform that visually interprets and educates the public about systemic issues. Having built digital products and immersive experiences that drive intergenerational impact across industry sectors, Sam’s work with Millennial Ethics has achieved recognition from Generations United, The WIE Suite, DVF, Caring Across Generations, CoGenerate, New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, New York City Department of Small Business Services, The Global People's Summit, The Roddenberry Foundation, The Gotham Film and Media Institute, and more. She has been a featured speaker, guest lecturer, and moderator at various industry forums and currently serves on the board of directors for Dance on Camera. Her mission: to encourage audiences to change their lens on media, society, and culture—to think beyond the individual, take a closer look at what shapes the system, and motivate and mobilize their circles to do the same. She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Wadham College, University of Oxford. Sam works primarily in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Miami.

Sarah Dunham is an assistant professor of the practice in design at Vanderbilt University and the managing partner at communications design studio MTWTF. MTWTF situates itself within the broadest discipline of design—the shaping of our shared physical and electronic environment—and creates communication tools that foster discussion and facilitate change. Sarah’s work at MTWTF and Vanderbilt explores how design can contribute to a rich public realm and our capacity to imagine a world beyond capitalism. Sarah has led projects with clients including the Brookings Institution, the Civic Data Design Lab at MIT, the Design Trust for Public Space, and the Equal Rights Heritage Center. Sarah has an MArch from California College of the Arts and a BA in Studio Art from Wake Forest University. She is a 2024 Independent Projects Fellow with the Institute for Public Architecture, a 2023 Design Writing Fellow with The Writing Space, and a recent member of the Design for Social Impact jury for the Core77 Design Awards.

Sofia Ella Quimbo (she/they) is an artist and researcher who ponders coloniality, displacement, resilience, and gender through the histories, design, and making of objects. Her art practice aims to subvert the visual and material language of conquest to surface care instead of violence.

She has an MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute and a BFA in Visual Communication from the University of the Philippines. While at Pratt, she was a Graduate Fellow at the Pratt Center for Community Development. She makes dolls and quilts out of her atelier in Brooklyn.

Tania Singh Khosla (she/her) is the founder and creative director of TSK Design, an award-winning branding and graphic design studio based in Bangalore, India. Over the past three decades, the studio has developed innovative design solutions across print, publication, and book design, as well as digital and environmental graphics, working with cultural and educational institutions alongside corporate, hospitality, and lifestyle brands. The studio’s work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wallpaper’s Global Edit, and ExperimentaDesign, among others. Tania has also served as a juror for international design awards including D&AD in London and the ADC Awards in New York. Shaped by research, curation, and making, Tania is expanding into a multidisciplinary practice that moves fluidly between graphic and product design, creating work that is tactile, handcrafted, and rooted in cultural memory. Her work balances Indian and global aesthetics, traditional and contemporary influences, and the digital and handmade. Tania holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MFA from the Yale School of Art.

Terry Schwarz is an urban designer and researcher working on issues of vacancy, ecology, and spatial justice in older industrial cities. As director of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, she ran a multidisciplinary community design practice and led award-winning initiatives, including Reimagining a More Sustainable Cleveland and Pop Up City. She currently works with community organizations, government agencies, and watershed groups on strategies for urban regeneration and climate adaptation in the Great Lakes region.