Nour Chamoun

About Nour Chamoun

Nour is a designer, educator, and entrepreneur who\'s passionate about design and technology solutions to climate and social justice issues. She co-founded Scopio, a visual media platform with the goal of centering images and stories told from underrepresented communities and regions. She has led the design and content teams, and worked with the engineering team to build products based on ethical AI and machine learning practices to solve racial biases in the image industry. She was a professor at the Parsons School of Design, teaching Responsible Innovation and how to design solutions for environmental and social issues. She co-authored and curated “The Year Time Stopped: The Global Pandemic in Photos”, a photobook about the year 2020 narrated in photos and stories from around the world. She has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 in recognition for her work. She sits on the board and advises nonprofits that advocate for social justice through digital campaigning, data, and design.

Experience

1. Senior Designer & Project Manager

   Earth Hero

   Mar 2024 — Present

   As Senior Product Designer and Project Lead, I\'m working with a team a product designers, engineers, and UX researchers to design and develop the community section of the app and help individuals connect to each other and climate organizations in order to contribute to climate action and affect systemic change.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  Summer Courses

  2011 — 2011

• Lebanese American University

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

  2009 — 2013

• Parsons School of Design

  Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

  2013 — 2015