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Christopher Rudd
Chris Rudd is an award-winning designer, community organizer, and founder of ChiByDesign, a Black-owned and people-of-color-led social and civic design firm. Chris has a deep background in social equity work, systems change, and youth development. He’s worked with youth and community residents across the country, supporting them in designing new anti-racist infrastructures to enable an equitable future.
Chris is a former Clinical Professor of Practice and Lead of Community-led Design at the Institute of Design (ID) at IIT, where his work focused on developing the co-design practice and the creation of an anti-racist design field. Chris is a former Stanford Institute of Design (d.school) Civic Innovation fellow, Chicago Urban League IMPACT fellow, a 2021 Illinois Science and Technology Coalition Researcher to Know and a 2022 World Changing Ideas honoree.