Ellen McGirt

Ellen McGirt|Essays

Navigating the fraught new reality of DEI

Despite the backlash, DEI work remains popular and necessary.

Ellen McGirt|Audio

S11E1: How to Throw a Party to Change the World with Carrie Mae Weems

In this episode, Carrie Mae Weems talks about her work, her role in public life, the intersecting crises in the world, and the power of convening people through art to confront big truths.

Jessica Helfand|Profiles

S11E0: Meet the Redesigners

Ellen McGirt|Essays

It’s Time to Find Your People

Announcing Equity Observer, Design Observer’s new editorial vertical and newsletter focused on the people and ideas redesigning the world for good.

Lee Moreau|Audio

Design As S1E4: Complexity Part 2

On this episode, Jamer Hunt, Manuel Lima, Ellen McGirt, and Lee Moreau finish their discussion on complexity and design.

Lee Moreau|Audio

Design As S1E3: Complexity Part 1

On this episode, Jamer Hunt, Manuel Lima, Ellen McGirt, and Lee Moreau discuss complexity.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Massoud + Mahmud Hassani

A childhood toy grows up to become a tool to end the scourge of landmines.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

The Redesigners

The Design Observer Twenty is our curated selection of twenty remarkable people, projects, and big ideas solving an urgent social need.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Deondre Smiles, PhD

A global, distributed Indigenous-led geography lab supports Indigenous communities doing political, cultural, and climate-based work.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

The Redesigners

The Design Observer Twenty is our curated selection of twenty remarkable people, projects, and big ideas solving an urgent social need.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Suzanne Ishaq, PhD

A community forms to advance social equity at the microscopic level.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Games for Change

A new coalition of gaming industry leaders led by Dove, including Epic Games’ Unreal Engine and Women in Games, is changing how girls and women are represented in digital games.