Category: The Design Observer Twenty

Delaney Rebernik|The Design Observer Twenty

Black Feminist Fund

Showing the philanthropic sector — and us all — how to fund Black feminists like we want them to win: with $100 million to power the global movements they’re leading.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Halli Þorleifsson

The Icelandic designer and entrepreneur is transforming his country — and soon the world.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Henry Timms

A cultural institution expands the canon of classical art to become affordable, relevant, and accessible to everybody.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Dr. Ismail D. Badjie

An innovative model delivers dignified, community-centered preventive health services in The Gambia.

Delaney Rebernik|The Design Observer Twenty

New Red Order

A public secret society of Indigenous artists and filmmakers using art, humor, and provocation to respond to settler violence and recruit non-Native accomplices to the cause of returning Indigenous lands.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Wemimo Abbey + Samir Goel

A fintech firm with an innovative new business model serving previously invisible customers once facing homelessness

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Deanna Van Buren

Eliminating mass incarceration through architecture and design.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Judy Samuelson

Bringing together diverse players in business, science, government, design, and the arts to tackle the most urgent problems facing the planet.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

While working on the greatest design question of all, the particle physicist has become a powerful force for full diversity in science, academia, and society.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Lata Reddy

The former civil rights attorney is working to bridge the racial wealth gap with initiatives created with and for Black and brown communities harmed by historically racist banking practices.