Mentorship Seminar
Inclusivity in Our Professional Design Practice

Sasha guides design strategy for business and social innovation. As an Innovation Consultant and Researcher on the Salesforce Ignite team, she works across stakeholder ecosystems to bring human-centered insights to customer challenges. In her teaching role within the Design MBA program at California College of the Arts, Sasha integrates design thinking with foresight, lean principles, storytelling and a bit of feminine wisdom to help student teams reimagine more creative, just and resilient futures. Prior to the world of design innovation, Sasha led a dynamic career on the producing team of film and television productions in New York City.

Tej is a Design Strategist at Salesforce Ignite where he works with multidisciplinary teams leveraging human centered design to generate creative solutions and unlock value for customers. Tej is passionate about exploring the human condition. In the past he has worked in international development, finance and mechanical engineering.

Ben is a designer at Ignite, a team within Salesforce that works with select customers to help them define new offerings and business strategies. He has a background in industrial design and human centered design working with clients on a range of topics including consumer packaged goods, healthcare, electronics, and social innovation. Throughout his work, Ben strives to design for the wellbeing of people and uses illustrations, animation and physical prototyping to build conviction for new solutions.

Bailey is a designer and innovation consultant for Salesforce Ignite where she loves working with creative teams to untangle messy problems and craft solutions that build conviction for meaningful and lasting change. Before that, she was a struggling independent contractor trying to “make it work” in San Francisco after graduating with a degree in Industrial Design.

Charlotte is a passionate Senior Experience Designer at Salesforce, where she partners with industry-leading companies to design purposeful experiences that delight their customers. Driven by a passion for customer-focused ethical design, her goals include building out an ethical toolkit for Salesforce designers to reference during their designer process, and contributing to the global discourse around Web 3.0 design practices as we move into a new age of digital design.

M (they, we, she) is a non-binary, genderfluid, genderfuck, and genderqueer person who creates art, stories, and research. She seeks to understand what causes tensions and unity in our relationships—from one-on-one interactions to the world at large. They analyze media, culture, and social problems; craft stories that challenge the status quo while entertaining her audience; and design new, actionable solutions to creating a better world. We work as a conceptual artist with experience in performance, video, and text, and are a qualitative researcher as well. M values play and autonomy and lives in Chicago with their Corgi, Tobias.

Joy is a design consultant at Salesforce Ignite. She came to the Bay Area from Shanghai 11 years ago to pursue her MFA degree in graphic design. Art is her passion and design innovation is her way of connecting and speaking to the world. She’s fascinated about observing people from the perspective of a different culture, and strives to find her own voice of interpretation.