Speaker Dina Benbrahim

Dina Benbrahim is a Moroccan designer and scholar who uses an intersectional feminist lens to investigate design for visibility, civic action, and social justice with minoritized communities to collectively reimagine equitable futures. She has been exploring pan-African and feminist design histories in North Africa.

Among multiple essays she wrote, Dina is the author of “Woven in Oral History: An Incomplete Taxonomy of Amazigh Symbols” in the book Centered, edited by Kaleena Sales. Dina is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Connecticut and the Director of the Department of Art and Art History’s Design Center (DC).