Erica Dorn
Executive Director and Founder @Suburb Futures
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WORK HISTORY
Executive Director and Founder @Suburb Futures
Founded and lead social design institute that advances equity and sustainability in U.S. suburbs through policy design, participatory action research, and coalition building. Lead participatory action research projects, publish, speak, and advocate for equitable and sustainable systems-change in U.S. suburbs.
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Transition Design
Colorado State University
B.A., Spanish lanuguage, literature, and culture
Front Range Community College
Communication and Media Studies
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Spanish Literature Undergraduate Studies
SKILLS
ABOUT ERICA DORN
Dr. Erica Dorn is an Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation at Oregon State University. She is the Founder of Suburb Futures, a social design institute that works relationally on policy design and new narrative building to bring about more equitable and living futures across metropolitan regions. She holds a PhD in Transition Design from Carnegie Mellon School of Design and currently researches relational design practices towards depolarization and belonging, in an age of plurality and extremes. Previously, Erica held senior leadership roles in community economic development, social impact finance, and business & leadership education. Through her social design consultancy, Erica stewarded transformational and participatory community development projects that co-design systems in which the human and more-than-human world can belong and thrive together. In 2015, she co-founded and served as Managing Director of the Etsy Foundation with a mission to \'reimagine commerce in ways that build a more lasting and fulfilling world.\' Now known as the Good Work Institute, GWI is a bioregional, worker-run non-profit. She is on the Board of Directors for Third Millennium Alliance, a rainforest conservation organization in Ecuador, an Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellow, and a co-creator of the Spanish bi-lingual podcast, Design in Transition/Diseño en Transición, a podcast about plural notions of world-making towards just futures.
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