Designer and social worker, De Nichols, capstoned Design Futures Forum with a reflective talk about sustaining personal and collective well-being in the fight for racial healing and justice in the United States. De shared lessons from civil rights leaders and fused insights from her personal challenges of navigating design activism with a chronic illness. By introducing a framework to assess the collective trauma in the built environment, De proposed a set of provocations that designers might consider as they design toward a more just and healthy future.

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