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Terresa Hardaway

Associate Professor of Graphic Design & Director of Design Justice, University of Minnesota
Terresa Hardaway, PhD is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown people through art and design. She uses creativity as tools of community activism like her exhibition, Umbra, and her community distro project, Stop Killing Black People. She created Project Naptural and co-created Racism Untaught. She has published two books, Racism Untaught and An Anthology of Blackness. Dr. Hardaway is the Owner & Creative Director at Blackbird Revolt— an abolitionist design and production studio. She is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design, McKnight Presidential Fellow, and Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota. She is the Owner of Black Garnet Books— an independent bookstore in Saint Paul curating books from authors of color. She earned her doctorate in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. She serves on the advisory board of the Black Liberation Lab and co-founded Hatch & Flock.