Designer

Bryan Bradshaw is a designer who brings transparency and collaboration to Colloqate’s processes. His collective design approach acknowledges historical disparities and advocates for elevating voices that have been marginalized in traditional design processes, continually spreading resources to those that do not share the same privileges as others. In addition, Bryan’s art background brings a level of craft and sculptural creativity to our work.

Finance

Angela French provides mission driven accounting services through the support of local nonprofits and startups. Her work enables us to continue to grow Colloqate while also setting a foundation for other Design Justice organizing and advocacy, including work with the Design as Protest Collective and Dark Matter University.

Principal & Co-Director,
Storytelling & Communications

Karim Hassanein is an interdisciplinary, values-driven design professional committed to supporting civic engagement and creating a more just world in everything he does. He works and thinks at multiple scales, from storytelling to event coordination to urban design, with a commitment to excellence and tangible positive outcomes for the organizations and communities he serves. Karim is motivated by hope for a liberated future, and to democratize organizational structures. All of this is fueled by his love of complexity and the ways that embracing uncertainty can lead to radical change.

Founding Principal & Co-Director, Design & Advocacy

Bryan Lee is an architect and national Design Justice Advocate with over a decade of experience in the field of architecture. He is the founding organizer of the Design Justice Platform and organized the Design As Protest National Day of Action. Bryan has led two award-winning architecture and design programs for high school students through the Arts Council of New Orleans and the National Organization of Minority Architects. He works to give people and practices tools to pursue Design Justice themselves.

Design Justice Organizer

Amina D. Massey, Ph.D. is a medical sociologist and community organizer committed to developing and implementing adaptable strategies for positive social transformation. She has worked with academic and medical institutions, non-profit organizations, researchers, urban planners, policy makers, and artists to establish accountable partnerships and collaborations. Amina’s work and research has employed creative and participatory methodologies to illuminate shared meanings and experiences, expand access to social resources, and foster equitable communities.

Architect

Natalia Revelo La Rotta, a Colombian-born architect challenges inequality and injustice through an interdisciplinary perspective that seeks to uproot oppressive policy, honor cultural practices and relationships. She strengthens Colloqate’s vision of working at the intersection of organizing, advocacy, and design through a holistic view that sees the urgent necessity for each part in support of the other. In her project work, she brings in colloquial knowledge and embraces the idea of the pluriverse, where there is more than one unravelment to any challenge.

Architect

Page Comeaux is a registered architect and organizer, deeply committed to creating design practices that foster justice, equity, and community empowerment. Through his work, he engages with communities impacted by systemic violence and social injustices, and is passionate about translating these experiences into liberatory design processes. Page’s design philosophy aligns with the values of Colloqate, as he seeks to integrate history, land, power, race, and ecology into every stage of the design process.

Operations & Communications

Mahalah has brought a social justice lens to the work of architecture and design from early on while participating in and directing camps for Project Pipeline, a program where students identify needs in their communities and help them design buildings fulfilling that need. Her work at Colloqate enables us to continuously improve our own internal processes and seek justice with our clients for the communities we serve.

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