Maura Shea
Associate Professor of Civic & Community Design and Food Systems Action Lab Co-Director
Systems Thinking for Our Food Systems
The path from farm to fork is often a mystery—but it needn’t be. Working with a range of partners, we visualize the current state. Removing the mystery is an initial step. Once we build an understanding of the current situation, we can activate new ways for communities to create more accessible, equitable, and effective pathways and systems.
About Maura
Maura Shea is an Associate Industry Professor at the Institute of Design (ID) focused on evolving community-led development methods and approaches. She is also the Co-Director of the ID Food Systems Action Lab. Working for over a decade as an innovation leader in national nonprofit networks, Maura is interested in civic and social collaboration and how human-centered design (HCD) can support equity and inclusion through the experiences of belonging and community well-being.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature and philosophy from Macalester College and a Master of Design (MDes), with a concentration in visual tools for design research, from ID.