ABOUT antionette
Antionette D. Carroll is building an intergenerational movement of Redesigners for Justice to co-create and reimagine a world in which racial equity and health equity are the status quo. Her driving belief is "Like all systems, systems of oppression, inequality, and inequity are by design. Therefore, they can be redesigned." To redesign this world, we need a new type of leader - a leader that leverages the history of youth being the architects of change and agitators of the status quo of exclusion, erasure, and oppression. Her ultimate vision? To be a pivotal supporter and Design Ally of youth of color in building a world that embraces the humanity, rights, and power of Black and Latinx people.
How is she getting closer to this vision? Being a serial social entrepreneur, activist, community organizer, and Redesigner for Justice.
Antionette Carroll is the Founder, President and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit educating and deploying youth to challenge racial and health inequities impacting Black and Latinx populations. Within this role, Antionette has pioneered an award-winning form of creative problem solving called Equity-Centered Community Design (named a Fast Company World Changing Idea Finalist). Through this capacity, Antionette has received several recognitions and awards including being named an ADL and Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow, Roddenberry Fellow, Echoing Green Global Fellow, TED Fellow, ADCOLOR Innovator, SXSW Community Service Honoree, Camelback Ventures Fellow, 4.0 Schools Tiny Fellow, St. Louis Visionary Award Honoree for Community Impact, and Essence Magazine Woke 100.
Within her almost 10 years of volunteer leadership, Antionette was named the Founding Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force of AIGA: The Professional Association of Design. She’s a former AIGA National Board Director and Chair Emerita of the Task Force. During her tenure, she founded and launched several initiatives, including the Design Census Program with Google, Racial Justice by Design Initiative, Diversity and Inclusion Residency, and national Design for Inclusivity Summit with Microsoft. Additionally, she’s the co-founder of the Design + Diversity Conference and Fellowship, co-founder and co-director of &Design, co-founder and chair of the Oscar Johnson III Youth Hope Foundation, and an active member of Adobe's Design Circle.
Antionette also is an international speaker and facilitator, previously speaking at Google, TED, Capital One, Harvard, Stanford University, Microsoft, NASA, TEDxHerndon and TEDxGatewayArch, AIGA National Conference, The Ohio State University, and more.
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other HONORS & ENGAGEMENT
mentorship
Adobe Creative Residency, 2017
Mastercard/Edpreneur Program, 2017
UnSchool (San Francisco), 2017
WUSTL’s Public Health Ideathon: Gun Violence, 2017
StartUp Weekend EDU, 2015
The Marcus Graham Project, 2014
juries
Core 77’s Competition, Design for Social Impact Category, 2020
Ashoka U Exchange, 2018-Present
stARTup Competition, 2018-2019
Sappi Ideas That Matter, 2019
Echoing Green Fellowship, 2018-2019
Saint Louis Visionary Awards, 2018-2019
Social Innovation Challenge: Health and Wellness, Claremont McKenna College, 2018
Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, 2018
Chouteau Greenway’s Design Competition, 2017-2018
AIGA Medalists, 2016-2018
Design Excellence, The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, 2018
Katherine Dunham Fellowship, 2012-2017
Arch Grants, 2017
AIGA Toledo Sit & Tell Community Project, 2016
Regional Arts Commission Grants, 2012-2015
Flux Student Design Competition, 2015
AIGA DC 50, 2015
What's Right with the Region, 2014
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