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Rachael Dietkus, Morgan Cataldo and Tad Hirsch - 'Practicing without a license'

Rachael Dietkus, Morgan Cataldo and Tad Hirsch - 'Practicing without a license'

I’m your host Kelly Ann McKercher, author of Beyond Sticky Notes: Doing Co-design for Real.

Guest

Rachael Dietkus

Rachael Dietkus

civic designer, design ethicist

United States

Rachael Dietkus is a leader in trauma-informed design, civic tech ethics, and public interest service design. A licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience, she founded Social Workers Who Design to embed trauma-responsive practices in government, healthcare, and social impact sectors. She was the first social worker-designer at the U.S. Digital Service in the White House. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, Design Observer, and MIT Press.
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MC

Morgan Cataldo

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TH

Tad Hirsch

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Show Notes

I’m your host Kelly Ann McKercher, author of Beyond Sticky Notes: Doing Co-design for Real. Today we’re joined by community-design leader Morgan Lee Cataldo, professor of design Tad Hirsch and social worker turned designer, Rachael Dietkus. We explore the similarities between design research and psychotherapy, the dark side of rapport, the differences in transactional research versus community-led as well as the increasingly popular topic of what being trauma-informed might mean.

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