Kaleena Sales and Ellen Lupton Extra Bold Graphic Designers

EXTRA BOLD is a feminist inclusive anti-racist nonbinary field guide for graphic designers. In this episode I am joined two fo the authors of this May 2021 release. 

Kaleena Sales  (she/her) is the Interim Chair  and an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design  in the Department of Art & Design at Tennessee State University. She is a writer, illustrator, and graphic design educator at Tennessee State University, an Historically Black College and University in Nashville, TN. Her research focuses on Black culture and aesthetics, and her recent illustration work has been selected for inclusion in the 2021 Communication Arts Illustration Annual. Through her service on AIGA's Design Educators Community Steering Committee, Kaleena has advocated for a more inclusive view of design history through her Beyond the Bauhaus writing series. She also serves as Director of Diversity and Inclusion for AIGA Nashville. Twitter: @kaleena_sales

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer, critic. She is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. She has authored numerous books on design processes: Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and Type on Screen, Design Is Storytelling, Health Design Thinking and Extra Bold, a feminist career guide for designers. In 2017, she delivered a TEDxMidAtlantic talk Museums should activate multiple senses, not just the eyeball. Ellen is the founding director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, where she received the AIGA Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 2007. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019. Twitter: @ellenLupton