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| Design for Progress is a woman-owned, brown- and Black-led brand strategy and design agency founded in 2019. Our small, multidisciplinary team holds decades of experience partnering in the nonprofit, social change, political, and mission-driven private sectors. We are particularly fluent in criminal legal/justice systems, youth justice, urban policy, gender and sexuality, and social and economic wellbeing. We have worked on everything from research to policy advocacy, narrative change to direct services. |
LEADERSHIP
Paragini Amin
| Creative Director (she/her) Paragini Amin is a brand and product strategist, and designer, with over 15 years of experience in criminal legal systems reform and other race/gender/class justice issues. She leads teams in making transformational ideas intellectually, emotionally, and aesthetically impactful. |
Christopher Edley III
| Director of Strategy (he/him) Chris Edley III is an organizational, brand, and product strategist. He has worked in politics, film, visual arts, music, writing, community organizing, and many combinations of the above for many causes for his entire life. He’s a glass-half-empty optimist. |
TALENTED TEAMMATES
| Thought Driven Development Thought Driven Development is a web and mobile software development consultancy based in the United States. Their mission is to deliver transformative solutions to our clients that catalyze unforeseen growth. |
| Tirza Ben-Porat Senior Designer (she/her) Tirza Ben-Porat is a graphic designer with extensive experience across various media, particularly in typography and printed materials. She specializes in design systems and layouts, focusing on creating relevant, informative, generous, and honest work while staying grounded in strong concepts and a clear purpose. |
| Dan Machlin Senior Content Strategist and UX Designer (he/him) Dan Machlin is a senior user experience, content strategy, and project leader with extensive consulting and design agency experience. His background blends strategic and hands-on experience driving project planning, concept development, and execution. He has delivered award-winning products for clients across sectors (non-profit, healthcare, retail, entertainment, food & beverage, travel, tech, and financial services). |
| We study our partners’ work, then figure out who we need to reach, what we need them to do, and how we can motivate them to do it. We get radically excited about things normal creative consultants find boring. Say, implementation. Or measurement and evaluation. We make things big and beautiful. But sometimes we make things small and plain. Change takes all shapes and sizes. It moves with many gaits. We believe that strategy makes good decisions easy. And that information and feedback makes good strategy. We benefit from the success of our partners because we are humans. |