Design for America - UC Berkeley

Hi Everyone!!!! We are accepting applications for DFA Spring 2018 for our Food Injustice team NOW! Applications are due Wednesday 24th followed by a short interview after. Get ready to join the DFAmily :) Here is the LINK TO THE APP! https://goo.gl/forms/ZzPpGSvcoX4dofNz2

If you want to join a group of incredibly diverse, passionate, interdisciplinary group of engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs keep reading!!!

Design for America (DFA) at UC Berkeley is a student-driven human-centered design studio. We integrate concepts from design thinking into ideation of solutions ultimately meant for social good. Every year, DFA members work on teams to co-create products, systems, and services for our community partners. Each team is focused on a different social issue that resonates with them and their community partner. We are one of 38 college studios nationwide.

Some cool things that you might experience while with DFA are:
- Collaboration with the most passionate, creative, and hardworking people
- Working on real social issues that mean something to you
- Being part of an entrepreneurial community that pushes you to do your best in any discipline or background that you come from, whether that be engineering, film, math, business, biology, or art
- Learning from the many awesome workshops that we'll be hosting this semester
- Giving back to the community that we live in

If you forgot to fill out our application by yesterday don't fret!!!!! WE ARE EXTENDING OUR APP TILL SUNDAY! So enjoy your game day (GO BEARS!💛💙) but make sure to fill out the app by midnight tomorrow! We are looking forward to reading all of them!! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzdSf59a7BMZVWrmgN8Aj_NnZthgJ8CbUTLFTAjBmH9Pzhxg/viewform
Divya Nekkanti Megan Lin Yana Slabakov Emily Koagedal

Fall 2017 Application Welcome to Design for America’s Fall 2017 application! DFA focuses on designing services and products to address prominent social justice issues in the area. This year our teams are focusing on optimizing free health care services with data and educating youth on food justice in the Bay Area. This i...

Meet our last DFA leader Emily Koagedal who will be working on the Combating Food Injustice in the Bay One Bite at a Time Team!!!! Emily is currently a sophomore studying Computer Science. When she's not at school, studying, working, or practicing her design/coding skills, she spends her time exploring the beautiful city of San Francisco, baking or cooking, or bungee jumping off of bridges. After attending her first hackathon ChimeHack2, which focused on different ways to make women feel safer in the world, she realized that technology could be used to solve social justice problems and combat the injustices in our world. This is what made her fall in love with tech and design! Emily loves DFA because it is a club that solves problems within our community that actually last!

Meet Yana Slabakov!!! 🙂

Yana is a senior environmental economics and policy major and English minor. She is from a small town in Colorado and she really loves exploring nature, hiking, and getting outdoors. She is very passionate about art, music, and concerts, and enjoys learning more about the design process and how to go from a mere idea to a tangible and real solution. She joined DFA several semesters ago and she loves the collaborative atmosphere and focus on social good that DFA is known for.