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Dina Benbrahim is a Moroccan educator, designer, writer, and researcher who uses an intersectional feminist lens to dissent and investigate design for visibility, civic action, and social justice with minoritized communities to collectively reimagine equitable futures. She has been particularly invested in exploring pan-African and feminist design histories in North Africa. Among multiple essays and chapters she wrote, she is the author of Woven in Oral History: An Incomplete Taxonomy of Amazigh Symbols in the book Centered edited by Kaleena Sales and The Political Fabric of Amazigh Rugs in the book Politics of Global Craft edited by D Wood. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Connecticut, the Di-rector of the Department of Art and Art History’s Design Center (DC), and an affiliate faculty with Middle East Studies, Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies, and Intersectional Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. In addition, she is the founder and director of Hello Departures, serves as a Docent for the Letterform Archive, sits on the Advising Council of the School of Architecture and Design at the Lebanese American University, and acts as Director of DEIA for the AIGA Connecticut Chapter.