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WHO WE ARE > OUR STAFF

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 is a graphic designer with over ten years in the trade. After spending a decade in print production at a publishing company, she transitioned to the activist world as the graphic designer/web producer at CorpWatch, where she worked on corporate accountability and human rights issues issues. She has also served as the Assistant Editor on the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition newsletter, Editor and Producer of a newsletter for FatChanceBellyDance (of which she was a principal dancer and teacher), and presently serves on the advisory board of Global Resistance and the India Resource Center.

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 of 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.

Erika DiVivo, Graphic Designer: Hailing from Kansas City, Missouri, she now resides in the Bay Area after having lived in New York and Miami Beach. A graduate of the Pratt Institute and a professional designer for over 10 years, Erika has worked in print, publication, and multidisciplinary design firms in the private and public sectors. Throughout her life, Erika has been an active volunteer supporting a wide range of issues, including youth empowerment projects, Food Not Bombs, conservation efforts and AIGA. Giving something back to the community while enriching her life has been her passion.

Josh Warren-White 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.



Associates:
Deirdre Tansey, Accounting

Current Internships:

Past collective members:
Kym Thomas, Graphic Designer (& founding member)
Gopal Dayaneni, Strategic Communications
Amy Woloszyn, Graphic Designer

Past internships:
Sabiha Basrai, California Polytechnic State University
Lara Amin, San Francisco State University
Tim Simons, Evergreen State College