Christina Dery

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT CHRISTINA DERY

Christina is a multi-disciplinary designer with 10 years of experience primarily working as a visual designer. She brings enthusiasm and dedication to everything she does. She is currently a Senior Service Designer at Veterans Affairs Canada. Christina recently completed her Masters degree in Design for Health at OCAD University and is the 2021 OCADU Medal Winner for the Design for Health program. She strives to help address the pitfalls of our healthcare system that too often leave patients, families, and healthcare workers bearing the burden of bridging system gaps. Her Design for Health studies focused on youth healthcare transition from paediatric to adult care, specifically addressing how we might individualize and support the experience of role and responsibility shifts for caregivers and youth over time. Christina believes design has the power to help solve complex problems through human-centered and participatory design methods. As a patient herself, she experienced the many sides of healthcare and wanted to find a way to use her skills to help improve the system, leading her to the Design for Health program. From the very beginning, she\'s had an interest and passion for narrative. Storytelling has the power to highlight, and uplift the voices of those who are most impacted by complex issues. As a designer, she has found it both inspiring and fulfilling to develop solutions grounded in those voices. The complexity of many of life\'s most wicked problems cannot be solved in silos, but rather through collective action. This systems mindset has informed her approach to design, research, and problem solving. Her passions lie in reframing complex challenges, to ultimately make meaningful change for a better tomorrow. Christina enjoys the outdoors (fishing, hiking, camping), her puppy, sports (Go Habs Go!), traveling, music, and loves to spending time with friends and family. She incorporates her creativity into most everything she does taking up various hobbies such as woodworking, and DIY projects in her spare time.