Welcome to the third installment of Dori Tunstall’s monthly dispatch that pairs 100 words and 1 image—an invitation to pause, reflect, and reimagine design’s role in cultural life.
Figure 1 Digital self-portrait by Nacho Montiel-O’Donnell featuring layered photography, risograph, CTA map, and paint splashes (March 2026).
“Who is protecting the design students?” I wonder, having left academia. Today, I highlight one of those protectors, Theresa “Nacho” Montiel-O’Donnell. As visualized in her self-portrait, Nacho is a Yaqui/Irish American design educator, maker, and former roller derby diva who hails from Arizona and teaches at a Hispanic Serving Institution outside of Chicago. Through her design assignments and advocacy, she protects the IBPOC (Indigenous, Black, and POC), Muslim and anti-Zionist Jewish, and intersectionally LGBTQ+ students, who no longer feel safe because of hostile policies from the Federal Government. Whose commitment to a liberatory design education for students would you honor?
An award-winning design anthropologist and author of “Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook” (MIT Press, 2023), Dori Tunstall brings a practice rooted in cultural justice and liberatory joy. Through her coaching and consulting, she helps organizations build more equitable relationships with the communities they serve. Her writing has also appeared on Substack, “Fast Company,” and “The Architect’s Newspaper.“
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