Michele WashingtonDesigner/Researcher/Strategist/ Writer/ at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
Michele Y. Washington is a designer, researcher, strategist, and design critic. She has worked with on range of projects from Coforma Health + Long COVID-19 and the Health Equity Task Force, A Long Walk Home, City as Living Lab, Leadership Summit, Killen’s Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Cox Matthews and Associates, Romare Bearden Foundation, West Harlem Group Assistance, Inc., and the Museum of Science and Industry. Currently, is the founder and host of “Curious Story Lab,” a podcast series featuring designers, architects, urbanism, fashion and product designers and food designers of color.
Michele holds two master’s degrees, Design Criticism from the School of Visual Arts, and another in Communications Design from Pratt Institute. Previously was an A’Leila Bundles Columbia University Scholar Fellow, and Billops-Hatch Fellowship, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library at Emory University Fellow. Also, was in residents at Monsoon Artists Residency in Maine.
Previously taught on the faculty of the MA Faculty Exhibition Design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she teaches Branding and Design. Also, has taught at CUNY and Pratt Institute.
Her work has been exhibited in Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference, held at the Bard Graduate Center; Visual Perceptions: 21 African American Designers Challenge Modern Stereotypes, Design Journey: You Are Here at the AIGA headquarters, and Google Black History and Culture.
Michele’s writing and visual essays has appeared in, Architectural Record, The Black Experience in Design, InQue Magazine, AIGA Design Journey, IRAAA and a forth coming book Travel Posters of New York.
Serves on the following Boards: Poster House Museum, Advisory Board; Pivot: A World of Many Centers, co-organizer; National Museum of African American History & Culture; SEGD, Education Task Force; Indigo Arts Alliance, Advisory Circle; Sing Sing Prison Preview Center (emeritus).