Hanieh is a senior user experience researcher and designer at YLabs, a non-profit design studio working to improve health and economic opportunity for youth. She uses Human-Centred Design to solve complex social challenges to produce impactful and equitable outcomes for communities. She is also the co-founder of Thousand&One, a social enterprise that supports women of colour to thrive in their professional lives, through community, healing, and growth.

With a background in the arts and journalism, and an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of York in England, she approaches design challenges through an inter-disciplinary and equity-focused lens. She is a UX instructor at Juno College of Technology and a design mentor at Springboard. She runs on coffee, enjoys climbing peaks, and reading a good book.

Website: https://hanieh.me/

Hanieh’s Twitter: @hfkhosroshahi

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haniehk/

SSIR Article: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_concrete_ceiling#

Thousand&One: thousandone.org