Understanding Joy: Designing an Impact Assessment with Stanford Students
This assessment is part of the joyful design framework and provides the beginnings of a method to understand what joy means to our communities and to assess if programs make space for that joy to exist.
Designing for Lasting Change: Presentation on Trust, Joy and the A3C’s at Foothill College
Presenting on the A3C’s of Systems Design at Foothill College’s campus-wide speaker series, The Art of Community: Conversations on Shared Values.
Workshop Development and Facilitation for Feeding America’s Community Health Equity Grant Program
Feeding America is a non-profit organization that is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people. Project Reflect partnered with their Health Innovation team to facilitate a joyful design workshop.
Driving Design is “a testament to the potential of design to address the pressing challenges of our time.”
The upcoming book, "Driving Design II," published by the Distributed Design Platform and co-funded by the European Union, features a chapter about Project Reflect and the concept of joyful design.
YardFruit: A community grown program that connects neighborhoods through the food growing in front yards.
Eat Fresh. Waste Less. Get to Know Your Neighbors.
Voices of Impact: Joyful and Collaborative Approaches to Sustainable Communities
The 2024 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor Lecture took place at Stanford University and featured a panel discussion with the four Distinguished Visitors on climate resilience and sustainability.
Rural Summer Meal Programs
This summer, Angela traveled to three rural school districts to observe, document and interview participants about their experiences with the new Summer 2023 Non-Congregate Meal Service in Rural Communities program.
Extending the life expectancy of Black women by ten years
Extending the life expectancy of Black women by ten years
Supporting organic farmers through institutional procurement
The Alice Water’s Institute (AWI) will be a teaching and advocacy center at UC Davis, one of California’s leading public universities and home of one of the world’s leading agriculture schools.
UN Sustainable Development Goal 0
In partnership with King’s College London Business School, Sustainable Gastro and Nordic Talks, we explored how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 0 represents the idea that joy should be at the center of how we approach solving global issues like food system transformation.