Sahibzada Mayed
Trauma-Informed Researcher, Abolitionist, Pause & Effect
Mayed is a design researcher and creative strategist. They bring a critically-informed approach to community-centered design that seeks to advance culturally thriving, regenerative, and sustainably empowering outcomes. Inside and out, Mayed is an abolitionist at heart. She seeks to articulate the ways in which carceral logics and discourses are reproduced in our lives, and dreams of the ways in which we can liberate ourselves and reclaim the freedom to define our own realities. Mayed's work embodies the radical critique needed to disrupt oppressive systems and the speculative dreaming that is necessary to imagine new worlds.
Rosenverse talks by Sahibzada:
" This is probably the biggest change we are going to see within our working careers. "
Industry junctures: Paths forwards for UXR and the critical decisions that get us there [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 2, 2024
" In corporate settings you have to get buy-in for care—it’s strange to think about, but that’s part of decentralizing power. "
Cultivating Design Ecologies of Care, Community, and Collaboration
October 4, 2023
" If you walk in someone else’s shoes, then you’ve taken their shoes. "
The Politics of Radical Research: A Manifesto
March 27, 2023
