Shalini Agrawal

Shalini Agrawal

Shalini Agrawal (she/her) is a settler and forced migrant on unceded Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone land. Shalini is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and facilitator who facilitates multidisciplinary workshops between participants of all ages, ethnicities, and socio-economic statuses in the co-design of their public spaces. Drawing from her career in architecture and community engaged design, she has created equity-focused, anti-racist training for practitioners influencing the built environment. Her care in and with communities has informed every facet of her practice. She is founder and Principal of Public Design for Equity, a practice that re-envisions and activates new systems of practices towards healing and equity. She is founder and Director of Pathways to Equity, a leadership program where she has trained over 1000 interdisciplinary practitioners in racial equity in community-engaged design. Shalini is a core organizer for Dark Matter University, and national network of BIPOC educators who challenge, inform and reshape architecture education towards anti-racism. She is an award-winning educator at California College of the Arts as Associate Professor in Critical Ethnic Studies, Individualized, Interdisciplinary Design Studios and the Decolonial School. Shalini was Director of the Center for Art + Public Life at CCA as Director, and managed all collegewide community-based programs and partnerships. She is the 2023-2024 Spatial Justice Fellow at the University of Oregon, School of Architecture. Shalini’s research, teaching and practice focuses on revealing the historical legacies of colonization in architecture and dismantling design methodologies towards healing and justice.

Residency/Fellowship

2025 Community of Practice and 2020 Labor

Website

www.publicdesignforequity.org

Location

Lafayette, CA USA