Committees

Committee on Design 

The Committee on Design promotes and advances issues in design practice, design history/theory/criticism, and design education through advocacy, engagement, mentorship, and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners. The committee will further support discussion and action in these areas to stimulate intellectual curiosity and advance skills that enrich the individual and society.

 Designers and design scholars who belong to CAA, including those who have served on this committee, have contributed to a wealth of resources on teaching design and design history:

• Mapping Design Resources  
• AIGA Teaching Resources  
• AIGA Design Educators 
• Decolonizing Design Reader:   
• Decentering Whiteness in Design History 
• Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion (AIGA list of resources) 

There are several listservs and other online groups in which members of CAA’s design community also participate.

• Design Studies Forum: sign up/subscribe at https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/subscribe/design-studies-forum
• PhDDesign: sign up/subscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=PHD-DESIGN
• Design Incubation: sign up/subscribe at https://designincubation.com/# (scroll down the page—signup is on right-hand side)
• Where Are the Black Designers? (Slack Channel)
  

Current Committee Members

Sarina Miller, Chair, Temple University (2024)  

Joshua Duttweiler, Texas A&M (2025) University
James Grady, Boston University (2025)  
Andrea Hempstead, Texas A&M University (2026)
Szilvia Kadas, State University of New York at Courtland (2026)
Taekyeom Lee, University of Wisconsin Madison (2026)
Nicole Finley McMahan, Tulsa Community College (2025)  
Christopher Sleboda, Boston University (2025) 
Grace Ong Yan, Thomas Jefferson University (2024)   
Kelly Walters, The New School, CAA Board Liaison, Ex Officio
Mary Yang, Boston University (2025)  
Ting Zhou, University of Connecticut (2026)