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Valentyna Hrushkevych
MFA Design, UC Davis

Valentyna is an international designer with a background in graphic and sustainable design. Her area of interest is focused on smell and taste research as well as on sustainable design and wearable technologies. 

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Trace Manuel
MFA Design, UC Davis

Trace is a cross-disciplinary, genre-fluid, mixed-methods researcher and educator. She has worked in acrylics, graphics, writings, charcoal, print, sculpture, video, short stories, soundscapes, radio shows, recording studios, yoga studios, and bar bands.

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Fatema Mostafa
MFA Design, UC Davis

Fatema Mostafa is an architect, interior designer, and graphic designer with a huge interest in the use of color in architecture. Her Bachelor Project was a design proposal for The Cairo Central Library in Egypt. The main concept was to encourage the culture of reading and education among Egyptians. Fatema believes that colors have the capability to transform buildings; internally and externally, to the better, which contradicts what her German professors have been teaching her, which is that colors are gauche.

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Sima Pirmoradi
MFA Design, UC Davis

Before starting the MFA in Design and just after graduating from a BA in Industrial Design, I became specifically interested in the field of Jewelry Design, and I have been exploring different approaches in ideation and design for mass production. I am also designing and making jewelry as an independent designer, with several jewelry collections, mostly inspired by the history, culture, and art of my ancient country, Iran.

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Edward Whelan
MFA Design, UC Davis

Edward Whelan comes to Davis from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he worked as an exhibition designer for the Philbrook Museum of Art. While working on a number of exhibitions at Philbrook, Whelan became interested in co-design and how those methods could be brought into museums. With close to 10 years experience in the museum field, Whelan plans to continue his relationships with museums and will be the lead designer for the upcoming “All on the Line: William T.

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