The Collective
MARIANA PRIETO
Founder, Design for Wildlife
(She/Her)
Mariana Prieto is an Experience Designer and Adjunct Professor at Art Center College of Design.
Mariana has led design teams through East and West Africa, USA, Latin America and Australia working on the global refugee crisis, family planning, healthcare and conservation challenges. She was named TED Resident in 2018 and 2019 and IDEO.org Global Fellow in 2013.
Originally from Colombia, she now lives between Vermont and Los Angeles with her husband, her pets and many temporary foster animals that come through their home.
Liz Mwangi
Human-Centered Junior Designer
(She/Her)
Liz Mwangi is a young professional, passionate about social impact entrepreneurship, women empowerment, and environment/wildlife conservation. She has previously interned and worked with organizations within the social impact space across Mauritius, South Africa, Uganda, and Kenya. Aside from serving as a junior designer at Design for Wildlife, Liz also co-runs That Glow Factor, a female empowerment platform that is enabling young African college women to successfully launch and navigate their careers. She graduated from the African Leadership University with a degree in Social Sciences.
tiffany hopkins
Business Designer
(She/Her)
Is an intuitive who loves numbers. I use spreadsheets for everything from the usual personal accounting to ice cream recipe creation to my annual wellness plans. I’ve worked as both a tech businesswoman, running marketing departments for e-com companies; and a design researcher, developing life-changing innovations for design firms and their clients. Everywhere I go I’ve brought my spreadsheets to quantify findings, hunches and hair-brained ideas for better communication and decision making.
My alternative name for a business designer is a capitalist-for-hire. I work with organizations who want to keep their souls intact while understanding how their funders and customers think: in terms of value.
MATTHEW WILCOX
Behavioral Insights
(He/Him)
Matthew is founder of The Business of Choice, a choice architecture and behavioral insights consultancy. Prior to setting up The Business of Choice, Matthew was Executive Director of the Institute of Decision Making, a think tank that served as a bridge between marketing practitioners and scientists who study behavior and choice.
With more than 25 years of experience in understanding brands, brains and behavior, Matthew consults in both the commercial and social development spheres. As well as advising organizations such as Levi’s, Novartis, AT&T and Unilever, he has brought insights from behavioral science to smoking cessation, energy conservation, clean air vehicle adoption and school cafeteria design programs in the U.S., and to reproductive health initiatives in East Africa. Matthew is a frequent speaker at business schools and at marketing and communication events, including giving a keynote address to the 2016 Global Social + Behavior Change Communication Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
His is also author of the award-winning book “The Business of Choice” which was named Marketing Book of the Year and winner of the American Marketing Association’s prestigious Berry Book Prize in 2016.
Matthew grew up in Ireland, is married to an Italian, and lives in San Francisco.
STACY BARNES
Graphic Designer & Project Lead
(She/Her)
Stacy is a systems thinker who uses graphic design throughout her process to quickly bring ideas to life and continue iterating on them until they reach the highest resolution. She has worked across for-profit and non-profit sectors for over a decade bringing new brands, businesses and strategic offerings to life.
Beginning work at IDEO New York as a senior graphic designer, Stacy then followed her passion to serve vulnerable populations through design by joining IDEO.org in San Francisco. At IDEO.org Stacy led teams through myriad complex issues to create innovative strategies and tangible solutions. In her role as creative and co-strategic director for the Youth Reproductive Health Program, she conceptualized, led, and often physically produced innovative offerings that have positively impacted thousands of people.
Her work spans sectors such as sexual reproductive health, water and sanitation, maternal child health, nutrition, and more. Stacy currently works with for-profit and non-profit organizations to help them better serve existing clients and reach new audiences at home or abroad.
And many more…
Our network of creative professionals spans across the US, Africa and Latin America.
These are a few members of the collective that have been involved in our most recent work, but we adapt our teams to fit the needs of each project.