Speaking engagements
Andrea facilitates workshops and public talks exploring art and design for social change. Her work centers practices and frameworks for building collective power through design justice, co-design, participatory service design, and youth-centered healing.
Explore past and upcoming engagements below:
June 2025 – Cambridge, MAMIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten Group
Presentation: Youth-Led Art and Healing Justice
May 30, 2025 – Washington DC Code for America Summit Demo Lab
Workshop: Service standards for a more accessible and responsive local government
January 2024 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PAService Design in Government
Presentation: Building Trust and Collaborating with Communities in the City of Philadelphia
November 2023 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PA and Washington, DC Georgetown University Beeck Center Social Impact + Innovation Digital Service Network
Presentation: Building Trust and Collaborating with Communities in the City of Philadelphia
October 2023 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PAInstitute for Smart & Healthy Cities at Thomas Jefferson University
Presentation: International Smart & Healthy Cities Symposium on Enhancing Cities in Equitable Ways
June 2023 – Brooklyn, NYHASTAC Critical Making & Social Justice at Pratt University
Presentation: Healing-centered art and design: a practice for personal and collective transformation
March 2023 – Virtual from Lexington, KY and Philadelphia, PAUniversity of Kentucky Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Panelist: Visual Practices and Experimental Geographies
March 2023 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PA
HmntyCntrd, Critical UX: Challenging the Dogma of UX
Panelist: Dogma of Individualism panel moderated by Alba Villamil
November 2022 – Philadelphia, PA
University of Pennsylvania: Annenberg School for Communication
Guest Lecturer: Course on Feminism and the Internet by Prof. Jessa Lingel
October 2022 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PA
Design Philadelphia Festival
Presentation: The Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit: Towards a Shared Vision and Practice
April 2022 – New York, NY
Parsons School of Design MPS Communication Design
Guest Lecturer: Course on CD Methods and Practices by Prof. Kimberly Gim
May 2022 – Philadelphia, PA
The Nonprofit Center
Presentation: Designing Equitable Programs Lunch & Learn
January 2022 – Virtual from Toronto, ON and Philadelphia, PA
DesignTO Symposium: No Such Thing as Normal
Presentation: Shaping Change: Gifts of Uncertainty
January 2022 – Virtual from New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA
AIGA NY with Dome
Panel Moderator: Making a Seat at the Table with Katie Lee and Lynn Kiang
June 2021 – Virtual from San Francisco, CA and Philadelphia, PA
Code for America Summit
Presentation: Building a Practice of Equity-Centered Design with the PHL Service Design Studio
April 2021 – Baltimore, MA and Philadelphia, PA
Maryland Institute College of Art Mixed Media Speakers series
Panelist: Design Justice - Building New Futures at the Intersection of Design + Social Justice
February 2021 – Virtual from Baltimore, MD and Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Performance & Innovation
Presentation: Design for Breakfast featuring the Service Design Studio
November 2020 – Virtual from Athena, GA and Philadelphia, PA
University of Georgia Athens
Presentation: On Staying Together - A Collective Art and Design Practice in Pursuit of Healing Justice with Creative Resilience Collective
October 2020 – Virtual from Philadelphia, PA
Design Philadelphia Festival
Presentation: Service Design in Government: For the people, by the people
November 2019 – New York, NY
Columbia University: Synapsis Journal
Workshop Co-Facilitator: Creative Resilience Collective as a form of speculative design
April 2019 – Philadelphia, PA
Common Field 2019 Convening – Report from the Field
Co-Panelist: Practices in Collective Care with Creative Resilience Collective facilitated and curated by Theo Loftis featuring Andrea Ngan, Li Sumpter, and LaTreice Branson
April 2019 – Philadelphia, PAUniversity of Pennsylvania: Weitzman School of Design
Guest lecturer: Sébastien Derenoncourt’s course on Art of the Web
April 2019 – Columbus, OHFoundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Conference
Presentation: Spatial Literacy and Sustainable Social Practices, organized by James A. Enos
November 2018 – Philadelphia, PA
Temple University’s Tyler School of Art
Guest lecturer: Course on Ghost in the Machine by Prof. Timothy Belknap