Design for America - UC Berkeley

Hi everyone,

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about spring recruitment. DFA will be recruiting internally this semester; however if you are really interested in joining the team, please email us at [email protected] by this Sunday at 10am to schedule a quick interview. Thanks!

DFA

We officially have a presence on instagram! Come follow us on our platform to stay posted on our recruitment timeline, and how you can also use design to go beyond yourself! 💡✨

We will be creating official events soon, but for now mark these dates on your calendar:

IMPORTANT DATES:
- September 5, 6:30, location: Jacobs 10C (basement): Info Session
- Saturday, September 8, 11:59: Application closes
- Monday-Wednesday, September 10-12 Interviews

Hope to see you all soon! 💡✨

"That’s the paradox of the growth mindset. Although it seems to draw attention to failure, and in fact encourages us to seek out failure, it is unflaggingly optimistic. We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down—but throughout, we’ll get better, and we’ll succeed in the end.” - Excerpt from the book “Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard.”

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Golden Bears, welcome our new Insta page, and to the Fall 2018 semester! We will be posting our recruitment timeline soon! Designers of Berkeley from all backgrounds: stay in the loop to find out about our upcoming social good projects. We’re stoked to see how you will use your talents to go beyond yourself! ✨ ————— “Notice what team leaders at IDEO are doing with the peak sand-valley visual: They are creating the expectation of failure. They are telling team members not to trust that initial flush of good feeling at the beginning of the project, because what comes next is hardship and toil and frustration. Yet, strangely enough, when they deliver this warning, it comes across as optimistic. ————— That’s the paradox of the growth mindset. Although it seems to draw attention to failure, and in fact encourages us to seek out failure, it is unflaggingly optimistic. We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down—but throughout, we’ll get better, and we’ll succeed in the end.” ————— Excerpt from the book “Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard.” Source: “Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation” by Tim Brown

Wow only one day left until DFA's TeaOne fundraiser!!!! Please come out and support us by buying some refreshing tea and mentioning our club at the register! DFA's Food Injustice Team have been working really hard to use our resources, skills, and and passion to think of meaningful ways to combat food injustice in the Bay Area, and especially on campus! Food insecurity plagues a lot of Berkeley students, so be a part of our effort to find a long-term solution to such disparities. Can't wait to see everyone there! Also shoutout to Ruhi Pudipeddi for this amazing poster!

Just a reminder that applications for this Spring semester closes tonight at midnight! Feel free to message us if you have any questions :)

DFA Spring 2018: Food Injustice Team Welcome to Design for America’s Spring 2018 application! DFA focuses on designing services and products to address prominent social justice issues in the area. This semester we are only accepting members for our food injustice team which is working towards combating food insecurity in the Bay Area...

Don't forget that applications for DFA close tomorrow at midnight! Looking forward to reading and getting to know all of you creative and innovative people! :) Here is the link to the application https://goo.gl/forms/ZzPpGSvcoX4dofNz2. Feel free to message us on facebook or email us at [email protected] with any questions! Thanks :)

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!

Thank you to everyone who came to our info session last night! It was great to see a lot of interest and excitement from so many people! If you have any questions, feel free to message us on facebook or email us at [email protected]. THE APP CLOSES TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT!!!! Here is the link to the app! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzdSf59a7BMZVWrmgN8Aj_NnZthgJ8CbUTLFTAjBmH9Pzhxg/viewform

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...

Hi everyone! Our info session is starting at 5 in 494 Wurster (the Cal Design Lab). When you enter Wurster, go right until you reach an elevator, and take that to the fourth floor. Hope to see you all soon!

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.