About QTBIPOC Design

After years of leading design and UX with many notable brands and agencies, Steven always noticed the lack of diversity within the creative teams. And in hiring, there was always a severe deficit of diverse talent. QTBIPOC Design was founded to provide education and community for those less represented within our design industry.

Jamie is Product Design Lead passionate about accessibility and creating a psychologically safe space for marginalized designers, researchers, and empathy-driven world delight'ers within our QTBIPOC community. Together, let's empower and lift each other up — so we can all live our most authentic best lives!

Kari serves as an advocate in the QTBIPOC space as a white, hetero ux designer dedicated to expanding design processes to support co-creation to drive equity, empathy, and humility in the field of user experience design. In this space she is here to support and serve her QTBIPOC colleagues to thrive in ux careers.

Kenny is a UX/UI Designer passionate about advocating for diverse and historically underrepresented communities through design and social justice. He is excited to be a part of the QTBIPOC Design community and to be able to support other LGBTQ+ designers of color!

Kiran is a UX/UI designer that is interested in contributing to digital experiences that are accessible, inclusive, and understanding. She has a background in education, having worked with immigrant and refugee youth as well as children on the spectrum. They love to get involved in the community to cultivate a supportive space for designers.

Maggie is a UX Designer who enjoys building end-to-end digital experiences, and help foster design communities. They try to show up from a place of openness and playfulness - which applies to almost every aspect of their life. It’s important for them to pay it forward by being a mentor and educator in the design community, especially for those those less represented within our industry.

She is a UX Designer with a focus on UX Research and Research Operations. She has previously worked for Software as a Service (SaaS) startups in the Research Ops space. She is passionate about community building and supporting fellow QTBIPOC designers along their journeys in UX.

Marian is a UX Designer who integrates her passion for science and design to create impactful user experiences. She has a strong foundation in research, strategy, and ops. She is committed to uplifting and showing representation for the QTBIPOC design community.

Meher is a UX Designer and student at the University of Washington studying psychology and informatics. She enjoys connecting with other designers in the community and finding ways to leverage her skills to uplift others. In her free time she enjoys working on illustration and making music with friends.

Michelle is a Product Strategist and a holistic designer that’s not afraid of complex problems. She has a background in front-end development, UX strategy and research, and product management. She considers herself a generalist and curious dabbler. She is a wife, mom of two little ones, native New Yorker, first generation Caribbean-American, who recently left the city for more affordable living on the other side of the river.

Stefan is a UX designer and creative consultant with ten years of work experience, specializing in the conception, design, development, analysis, and improvement of user’s experiences.

Ivan is a UI/UX designer committed to inspiring and enabling folx to fulfill their potential and live their best lives.

Ainsley is an inventive, award-winning, charmingly nerdy creative professional. He blends his love for pop culture and style with Fortune 500 brand experience and an all-consuming love of storytelling. Emphasis on writing and moving pictures.

James is a Human Resources executive passionate in empowering people to live their best and authentic life.

June is a product designer & art director with 10+ years of experience spread across the agency world, start-ups, e-commerce, and video streaming. Her work spans multiple disciplines inclusive of art direction, brand strategy, user experience, and user interface design.

Nikita Washington is a Senior UX Designer and Founder. Beyond the digital products she’s shipped, Nikita is an active member within her communities and is often found speaking on panels, giving conference talks, and being a featured guest on podcasts to discuss experience pivoting from education to design as a Black woman of Trans experience.

Nikita serves on the leadership team with Out in Tech, the world’s largest non-profit community of LGBTQ+ tech leaders and is a community advisory board member with Trans Tech Social Enterprises whose mission is to empower, educate, and employ those facing barriers in education and in the workplace, as well as to reduce instances of discrimination, with a concentration on trans and gender nonconforming individuals.

Her design advocacy work is centered on championing early-career and underrepresented folx, helping them break into the world of design and demystifying an often gate-kept industry.

Sophia has served in education and education-adjacent spaces for over 15 years as a university lecturer, victim advocate, program manager, school district administrator, and national education organization director. She is deeply dedicated to bringing equity and justice to education, working in support of students, educators, families, and communities to address systemic inequities that prevent students from flourishing. More specifically, she is committed to identifying and developing strategies that meet the individual, intersectional, and distinctive needs of LGBTQ+ students and move them towards thriving socially, emotionally, and academically.