Contributors

Morgan dedicates her professional life to developing and advocating for participatory practice and peer education as essential levers for creating true, lasting, power-shifting change in services for systemically neglected communities.

She is the Founder and Principal Consultant of morgan&co and has over 15 years of personal and professional expertise collaborating with individuals, communities, and organisations to reimagine the role those who experience systematic exclusion play in social change.

Rachael is a social worker, trauma-responsive design strategist, and advocate for embedding ethical care into civic tech and design practices. She is the founder of Social Workers Who Design where she specialises in trauma-responsive systems, integrating her expertise to create environments that prioritise healing and safety.

Rachael's nearly 25 years of experience spans government, nonprofit, and social impact sectors worldwide, where she focuses on promoting trauma literacy, community engagement, and social justice through responsible design.

From dabbling in food writing to working as a librarian, Rachel has spent the best part of 2 decades working with words. As a content designer she has worked extensively with parliament, and government, helping people understand their rights. Her interest is how to create better content for people experiencing stress, anxiety and trauma.

Originally from Canada, Rachel now lives in Scotland with her 2 children.

Kate is a user-centred design leader specialising in inclusive and ethical design and delivery within the public sector. Her academic background is in Human Rights Practice, with Masters' fieldwork and research into restorative justice and survivor-centred approaches to criminal justice. She is also a trained Rape Crisis support worker. She brings these lenses to her work as a human-centred designer in Government and healthcare.

Sarah is an independent designer and researcher who specialises in applying design to the social sector. Their work with vulnerable communities leads them to question the harm and ethics of design.

They serve as faculty at the California College of the Arts and UC Berkeley, and engage in organising, mutual aid, and political education that challenge and inform their work.

Born and raised in Morocco, Sarah now calls xučyun (aka Oakland, CA) home.

Michelle is a content designer leading content for bereavement services at a nationwide hospice. She specialises in designing clear and compassionate content for people who are grieving.

Having experienced hospice care with her own family, she is committed to providing trauma-informed digital content at a difficult time.

She currently lives near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where she enjoys good wine, good coffee, good mountain views, and time with her family.

Josh is a qualitative UX researcher turned accessibility designer committed to recentering civic service away from technology and towards historically underserved people.

Through his personal lived experiences with CPTSD and work with disabled Veterans at VA.gov, he strives to broaden accessibility's impact through a trauma-informed lens.

Having witnessed the effects of severe trauma within his family, Owen became aware of inaccessibility and inequity in society at a young age. This, and his own experiences as a transman, led him to realise the impact inaccessible and non-inclusive digital content can have on people's lives.

Now, as a content designer, Owen works to create mindful content experiences in the hopes of making people's lives easier.

Jane is a design lead working in bereavement and care services for the UK government. A genuine user centred design fan-girl (yes, she even has a badge) Jane is passionate about using research, evidence and empathy to create simple and clear content design for people dealing with really tough things.

Steph is a lover of words. For over 20 years she's been a freelance writer and a content designer. She is an advocate for users, testing, and getting content wrong (to get it right).

She wants to help people understand how to write for different audiences who have different experiences. She's worked in government, the private sector, higher education and the third sector.

She lives in Scotland with her family.

mayed is a decolonial researcher and designer, committed to dismantling oppressive systems and cultivating pathways for collective liberation. Through genderful fashion, they create spaces to celebrate the beauty of diverse gender expressions and disrupt the gender binary.

mayed's identity is shaped by their background as a Muslim immigrant of Afghan, Indian, Pakistani, and Persian heritage, as well as lived experiences of queerness, disability, and neurodivergence.

kon is a software developer who also designs. For the past few years he's been curious about the impact of trauma in people's lives and the pathways to healing. Now, he combines his background in software development with his interest in trauma-informed design to create safer, more healing, and more inclusive digital experiences.

kon holds a Master's in computer engineering. He lives in Patras, Greece and when he's not working, enjoys reading, long walks, and rewatching old sitcoms.

Miriam Vaswani is a lead content designer, researcher and fiction writer, with several years' experience of crisis communication with international impact. Her trauma-informed design practice is influenced by her work in crisis communication.

She's from Canada, where she grew up on the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi'kmaq Peoples. She lives in Scotland, and has also lived in Germany, Tunisia, India and Russia.

Jax is a trauma-informed designer, researcher, educator, and coach committed to fostering positive change for people and the planet.

Her work focuses on the intersection of inner development, personal growth, and systemic transformation, with much of her practice centred in the social change sector. Jax integrates trauma, wellbeing, and inner development into her approach to change, teaching at universities and independently.

She lives among the gum trees on Yuin country in Australia.

Jenny is a researcher and strategist from the UK, focused on taboos and trauma. She's led design research on a range of issues that tend to be hushed up, from medical misconduct to sexual dysfunction, suicide, incarceration and addiction.

Jenny works as the Head of Research and Impact for a feminist organisation (Chayn) which supports survivors of gender based violence around the world.

Jenny is interested in the personal and collective journey of learning how to rest.