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 Innosanto Nagara, Graphic Designer: Inno has been doing graphic design for activist groups and progressive organizations for over fifteen years. He is a long-time activist, and co-founded Design Action as a way to fully dedicate himself to making a concrete and sustainable contribution to the movement for social justice, doing what he does best. Before Design Action, Inno was a worker-owner at Inkworks Press collective. He is also currently active with the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives, the anti-war movement, and doing Indonesia solidarity work.  Nadia Khastagir, Graphic Designer: Nadia has worked for over 20 years in print production and graphic design. After a decade in print production at Miller Freeman Inc, a magazine-publishing company, she moved back into the activist world as the graphic designer at CorpWatch, a nonprofit organization working on corporate accountability and human rights issues. Nadia has been editor and designer of the newsletters for both San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and for FatChanceBellyDance. She has been involved in various organizing efforts, including the anti-apartheid movement in college in the 80s, the Alliance for South Asians Taking Action (ASATA), the Bay Area Coalition for our Reproductive Rights (BACORR) and the Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. She is involved in the International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable and presently serves on the advisory board of Global Resistance/India Resource Center. Nadia also likes to paint banners for The Ruckus Society and other actions.  Poonam Whabi, Graphic Designer: A graduate of San Francisco State's Design School, Poonam came to the U.S. in 1999 from the United Arab Emirates. With a long-time interest in environmental and animal rights issues, she has contributed her design skills to numerous non-profit and social justice organizations in the Bay Area. She is currently an active member of the League of Pissed off Voters.  William Ramírez, Graphic Designer: William arrived in the Bay Area in 2003 from the Dominican Republic. He has a Graphic Design and Illustration degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Before moving to the Bay Area William worked as a graphic designer for almost ten years, aiming to awaken consciousness, spark passion, and challenge conservatism amongst Dominican youth. He is one of the founders of the award winning independent arts & culture magazine, La Vaina, as well as having worked for commercial companies, non-profit organizations, and independent artists.  Sabiha Basrai, Graphic Designer: Prior to joining Design Action, Sabiha spent two years as a design associate at Public Interest GRFX in Philadelphia where she helped develop messaging strategies and designed campaign materials for the National Association of State PIRGs. Sabiha is a graduate of the Art and Design program at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. In college she was the Co-Director of the Progressive Student Alliance and organized around local issues of social and environmental justice. She also authored a senior thesis on the history of visual communication in the progressive movement.  Josh Warren-White, Graphic Designer: Josh is a long-time social justice organizer and graphic designer. Before joining Design Action, he worked as a freelance graphic designer for progressive publishers and social justice organizations across the US. Over the years Josh has done community organizing around economic and racial justice issues as a staff member of Just Cause Oakland and the Right to a Roof Project of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. Josh came of age amongst a broad array of progressive movement work, from global justice and anti-war activism to tenant organizing. He has spent many years as an anti-racist organizer and trainer with the Catalyst Project, and two years doing movement-based publishing as a collective member of AK Press. Josh recently returned to the Bay Area after sailing 12,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean with his family aboard a small sailboat. Sarah Reilly, Web Developer: Sarah holds a B.Phil from Miami University and a certificate in multimedia design from San Francisco State. Before pursuing design, Sarah worked in documentary video-chronicling resistance to Apartheid, the emergence of environmental movements and issues of environmental justice. In addition to her work with Design Action, Sarah is a member of The Brass Liberation Orchestra-a radical street band that brings music and dance to pickets, marches and other political events. Associates: Internships:
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