We are a community of practice and training academy for inclusive design founded in 2022.
We operate as a volunteer-led Slack community under a grassroots model and a training academy under a social enterprise model.
Our aim is to reinvest a portion of our profits into a transparent fund for equitable access to our learning opportunities and community programming.
As we're only starting to explore paid offerings, we rely on donations and volunteers to support our free programming and resources.
We use an expanded definition of inclusive design.
For us, inclusive design is an ecosystem of approaches, mindsets and practices for social change. It disrupts oppressive norms and systems to ensure that as many people as possible can fully access, benefit from and find joy in the solutions we design.
We embed this justice-driven vision and a systemic approach into our Community events and our learning programs in our Academy.
We are a 200+ member community of social changemakers of all disciplines, geographies and backgrounds aligned around a set of shared values.
The Inclusive Design Jam (IDJ) was founded by Sandra Camacho (She/her), an independent inclusive design strategist and educator based in Paris, France. After 8 years at Google, she took on the alias Sandra By Design in 2018 to help organizations design for social impact.
She's spent the past 5 years working with organizations around the world to evolve culture, practices and processes for more inclusive and equitable outcomes. She's our Community lead and lead instructor at the Academy.
The community is managed and overseen by Sandra Camacho (aka Sandra By Design). She's supported by a group of self-appointed volunteers from around the world who are passionate about inclusive and equitable design.
