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GIDLab / Institute for Innovation & Global Engagement University of Washington Tacoma / Using the power of design thinking to solve local and global issues
Tacoma, WA
Joined April 2019
🎉 Welcome Alyce McNeil as our new Interim Managing Director of the Institute for Innovation & Global Engagement! With 17+ years in PR & community leadership, Alyce brings deep expertise in data, student success & engagement. Thrilled to have her on the team!
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We are excited to announce our Spring 2025 edition of IDEATE is published!. Read about the IIGE's annual Global Engagement Conference, the GID Lab record of workshops, a student winning a Student Civic Leader Award, and more!. Check out more here:
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Celebrating our wonderful Winter and Spring GID Lab clients First 5 FUNdamentals, UW CoLab for Community & Behavioral Health Policy, and Institute of Black Justice and the learning opportunities provided for our interns. We are excited for projects already lining up in Summer!
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Meet our Spring 2025 interns! 🌟. We're thrilled to welcome four amazing students to the team this term at the Global Innovation and Design Lab:.✨ Káren Bedoya Álvarez .✨ Primitivo Bambao.✨ Jack Cheung .✨ Hanifah Sen . Stay tuned to see what they'll do this Spring!
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What an incredible Shared Futures event! 🎉. The energy was electric as students and South Sound professionals came together to perfect elevator pitches, and build valuable connections. Students are walking away with invaluable career insights to fuel their futures! 🚀
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This week in Design Studio, we had the pleasure of hosting Sasha Costanza-Chock for a talk + Q&A on networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. An insightful discussion on UX vs. business goals, accessibility, community partnerships & impact!
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We were thrilled to to host Dr. Alexis Hope in our Design Studio class with Dr. Jaleesa Trapp! She shared invaluable insights on design values and her work behind the "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" project at the MIT Media Lab. Truly an inspiring session!
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We’re delighted to welcome Saralyn Smith (she/they) as Managing Director of the Institute for Innovation and Global Engagement at UW Tacoma! 🎉 With 15+ years in higher ed, Saralyn excels in program design, fostering partnerships, and creating inclusive, engaging content.
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Always inspiring to wrap up design thinking sessions with collaborative, community centered solutions! Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and Local Advisory Team members built visionary and practical prototypes to disburse Washington State Community Reinvestment Project funds.
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Meet our Winter 2025 Interns! 🎉. We're excited to welcome:.✨ Cathy – Major: Writing Studies, Minor: Innovation & Design.✨ Hugo – Major: Urban Design.✨ Yesuf – Major: Marketing & Business, Minor: Innovation & Design. Stay tuned for their amazing work!
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We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Jaleesa Trapp to the Innovation & Design minor as a new faculty member!. Dr. Trapp, an MIT Media Lab alum and Tacoma native, brings expertise in community-centered design, STEM and computing education, equity, and social justice.
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Here’s to another year of amazing workshops! Huge gratitude to all our wonderful clients of 2024, wishing our GID Lab community every success in 2025!
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Disrupting schemas produces wild and inspiring ideas! Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and its Leadership Advisory Team ideated core principles to disburse community reinvestment funds. The GID Lab team can't wait to facilitate ideas to action in Workshop #2 next year!
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Excited to share the Fall 2024 edition of IDEATE! Dive into stories of students in experiential learning, the GID Lab tackling global issues, and more. Explore here: #InnovationandDesign #IIGE #GIDLab #DesignThinking #IDEATE
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GID Lab Interns close out a project-filled quarter with a UX research project on the NextGen Civic Leader Corps, a tri-campus initiative empowering UW Tacoma students to make a global impact—these findings will help take it to new heights! @VolckerAlliance
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We’re excited to have Sanjay Vuppugandla join the IIGE as our new Web Developer! . Sanjay is a UW alum and passionate software engineer with an interest in Web Development. He is excited to apply design principles to enhance the IIGE website. Welcome to the team Sanjay!
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A beginner's mindset can break through conventional problem solving! @KCPubHealth executives engage in high energy cycles of design thinking driven by design justice principles with the Global Innovation and Design Lab in three workshops over two days.
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RT @designcouncil: Let’s celebrate the sustainable power of fixing your stuff this #RepairDay! 🧰 . Repair keeps products alive longer, savi….
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