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Lauren Williams, designer, researcher and educator, on how design upholds power and how it can help dismantle it | Women at Work

2026-09-1553:38

Can design be neutral? Lauren Williams works with visual and interactive media to understand, critique, and reimagine how social and economic systems distribute and exercise power over Black life and death. In our latest episode, the designer, artist, and educator talks about moving away from innocence in design practice and what it would actually look like to design a world without police and prisons. Do not miss it.

Natalee Ranii-Dropcho, Strategy & Copy Director at Porto Rocha on powerful brand voices, wellbeing and following your instinct. | Women at Work

2026-08-0444:45

Natalee Ranii-Dropcho has spent over a decade building brand worlds at the intersection of strategy, voice and storytelling. In our latest episode, the Brooklyn-based Strategy & Copy Director talks about going freelance on her own terms, building a strategy department from scratch at one of the world's most respected independent design agencies, Porto Rocha, and why the language brands use to sound human is making them less human by the day. Do not miss it. Words are never just words.Find our new episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Anoushka Rodda, co-founder of Templo on design as a tool for social change and the power of lived experience | Women at Work

2026-07-0654:10

Anoushka Rodda co-founded TEMPLO in 2013 with one conviction: design is most powerful when it stands for something. In our latest episode, the UK-based founder and managing director talks about building a cause-led agency from scratch, the personal history of displacement that drives her work, and why the women who run the design industry are still not getting the credit they deserve. Do not miss it. Design is never just design.Find our new episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Joyce N. Ho, Emmy Award-winning creative director, on motion, identity and the radical act of stopping. | Women at Work

2026-06-1541:05

Joyce N. Ho has designed title sequences for worldwide famous shows and events, won an Emmy, and built one of the most respected careers in motion design of her generation. In our latest episode, the Hong Kong-born, Australian creative director based in Brooklyn talks about the art of designing in time, what it costs to run at full speed for fourteen years, and what you find when you finally slow down. Do not miss it. It's always in motion.

Krista Radoeva, type designer and founder of About Type, on why letters are never just letters | Women at Work

2026-05-1341:44

Krista Radoeva designs typefaces in Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, and she does it with the conviction that a writing system is never just a technical tool; it is a living record of culture. In our latest episode, the Bulgarian type designer and founder of About Type talks about building an independent career on your own terms, the beauty and politics of Cyrillic script, and why, after ten years in the field, she is now finding balance. Do not miss it. It’s just your type.

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