Dr. Pierce Otlhogile-Gordon

Keynote

Practicing Just Transformation: Building Equity Design Into Pedagogy 

About Pierce

Dr. Pierce Otlhogile-Gordon is an innovation catalyst, researcher, facilitator, and evaluator, impassioned by the space between transformation and liberation. 

Dr. Otlhogile-Gordon served as a shepherd for Equity Innovation to shape our collective future; through co-founding equity design organizations, by researching participatory innovation for international development, and as the Director of the Equity Innovation studio at Think Rubix, a Black-led social innovation consultancy. 

He’s taught courses in design, evaluation, international development, and equity across four continents, co-designed partnerships, products, and services with local and international changemakers to support social change, and researched the complexity, evaluation, and emergence of design and innovation across the world.”