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Senior Global Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Designing the conditions for equity and belonging to thrive across IDEO’s systems and creative culture.

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

Core Organizer

Harnessing research, oral history, and data to advance just housing futures in New York City.

NEW INC

Member

Member of the New Museum’s cultural incubator for creative practitioners at the intersection of art, design, and technology.

Pioneer Works

Working Artist Fellow

Developing a socially engaged project to foster solidarity tourism in Allensworth, CA, a historic free Black town in the San Joaquin Valley.

PREVIOUSLY:

Independent Curators International

Curatorial Research Fellow 

Awarded a 2023 fellowship to research geographies of Black sovereignty and world-building in California.

The Laundromat Project

Create Change Artist-in-Residence

Created Staying Power, a print and online platform to amplify a people’s history of public housing.

The Center for Cultural Power

Project Manager

Led an artist commission for We, As Ourselves, reframing narratives around sexual violence and Black survivors.

International Center of Photography

Senior Manager, Teen Programs & Neighborhood Engagement

Led community and youth programs reaching 600+ teens annually through photography and public engagement.

EDUCATION:

University of California, Berkeley

Masters of Social Work (MSW)

Management & Planning Concentration

Fordham University

Bachelor of Arts

Urban Studies and African & African American Studies

Ariana Faye Allensworth

Ariana Faye
Allensworth