A photo of Marielle looking at the camera. There is a lens flare in the top center of the photo, that is back lit, with sun outlining them. Marielle is a femme presenting non-binary person who is of Chinese-German decent. They are smiling softly while looking at the camera, have dark black wavy hair with neon green in their bangs. They are wearing a gingham blue dress and a jade pearl necklace.

…and I aid organization strategize and deliver impactful projects

Having worked in social impact for 5 years within Canada, I’m an award-winning UX designer turned service designer who recently relocated to Barcelona to further purse policy, health, and community design.

I’m a mentor with the Distributed Design Platform, where I teach about radical love, decolonial futures, queer culture, and disability justice.

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About Me


<aside> 📖 “If collective access is revolutionary love without charity, how do we learn to love each other? How do we learn to do this love work of collective care that lifts us instead of abandons us, that grapples with all the deep ways in which care is complicated?”

- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice”

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Here are some of my favourite case studies ✍️

A picture of a table covered in a light blue long piece of paper. One person, who is only visible from below the shoulders to their hands, is writing on the paper. Many others of written on the piece of paper, as it is a reflection exercise.

Social Design Penguins (SDP) is a co-design bootcamp where folks with cognitive disabilities build design and decision making skills.

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Social Design Penguins

An image of a laptop with two cards laying overtop. The laptop screen displays a website that has the words “Faces of Racism” - which is the project. The cards are call and response, where one side has a saying and the other has an explaination.

Faces of Racism is a website and conversation toolkit created to aid Asian communities discuss and respond to racism.

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Faces of Racism


I also write about design ✍️

Design is an ever-changing discipline, and I deeply enjoy reflecting on that change!

Recently, I co-authored an article in Driving Design about decolonization and how we integrate it into design practice. I am also working on a series writing about collective design principles.

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✏️Check out my Medium

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Interested in learning more, here’s a gallery of my other work!

Project Gallery


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