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Program

MFA 12 Graduate Media Design Practices

Award-winning multidisciplinary designer Bora Shin, formerly managing partner and creative lead for verynice design-strategy consultancy, leverages design and research practices at the intersection of visual communication and technology for social change. Currently serving as Design Strategy Lead for the LA Mayor’s Innovation Team—a start-up planted by the Bloomberg Philanthropies to drive civic innovation—Shin focuses her practice on building design capacity and exploring models to channel impact-minded designers. After receiving her MFA in Media Design Practices from ArtCenter (where she is now an adjunct faculty member), Shin continued her MFA thesis work, BeMySatellite, as an ArtCenter post-graduate fellow and as a Space Grant Graduate Fellow with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has developed practice-based design fellowships and volunteer programs for such non-profits as the UNICEF Innovation Unit and Ashoka’s Youth Venture; among Shin’s other business and design clients are Samsung, 5D Global Studio, Welcome.us/Fwd.us and Disney.