Women in Leadership & Design

ABOUT US

Women in Leadership & Design (WILD) is an initiative of AIGA San Francisco. Our mission is to amplify women and non-binary designers’ collective power and visibility. We mobilize and energize impact in design leadership by focusing our work on connecting, elevating, sharing, and educating designers in our community. Often, we do this through events like group meals, speaker series, workshops, meetups, and more. We exist to redesign leadership, together.

WHAT WE DO

Connecting
By bringing designers together in intimate settings, we foster community and collectivism

Elevating
Highlighting design leaders and allies, endeavors, and opportunities lifts us up together

Sharing
Through stories of lived experience and candid conversations on evolving industry perspectives

Educating
By offering skills-building content, coaching, and mentorship we drive leaders’ advancement

GET INVOLVED

If you are fortunate enough to have resources or a little extra to spare, please consider making a donation. We greatly rely on the community’s generosity to help support WILD programming. As a 501(c)3, your donations will be used to help effectively promote events to the press, media and general audience as well as cover the cost of platforms, software, catering, event space, our staff and Tech support for virtual events. Your generosity is very much appreciated.

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Want to join forces as a WILD partner? Email partner@aigasf.org to see how we can work together.

Have an event or meetup idea that you would like to pitch to the WILD committee?
Email wild-events@aigasf.org.

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN

We’re building an organization of women and non-binary designers to mobilize and energize our impact together. Whether you’re already a design leader, a design professional on the path to design leadership, or an aspiring designer, WILD has something for you. From community to culture to mentorship and career support WILD has a lot planned to amplify our collective power. We’re redesigning leadership, together. Join us to learn, connect, and expand.

STAY CONNECTED

Help Us Build Community


THE TEAM

Rachel Gogel
WILD Chair

Shuang Wu
WILD Committee Co-Lead

Ayesha Mathews Wadhwa
WILD Editorial Lead

Bev Maeda
WILD Programming Lead

Karin Ikavalko
WILD Partnership Lead

Sid Deshpande
WILD Creative Lead

Isra Safawi
WILD Editorial Co-Lead

Heather Jansen
WILD Programming Co-Lead

WILD PERSPECTIVES


WILD Portraits: Isra Safawi


Volunteer Opportunities for AIGA SF’s WILD


WILD Portraits: Ayesha Mathews


Read other recent WILD Portraits

UPCOMING EVENTS

WILD Voices: Celebrating Women’s Month
Virtual
Fri, Mar 29, 2024

PAST EVENTS

WILD March San Francisco Meetup: A Radical Alteration – gallery walk thru with Maymanah Farhat @ SFCB
San Francisco Center for the Book / SFCB
March 16, 2024
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

WILD Meetup: February East Bay Meetup – Black History
Kinfolx Oakland
1951 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612
February 24, 2024
11:00 am – 1:00 pm

WILD Voices: Jennifer McConnell
Virtual (Watch Replay)
Wed, Jan 31, 2024

See all past WILD events

WILD VOICES RECORDINGS

Our “WILD Voices” speaker series features Bay Area women and non-binary design leaders. Together we explore singular journeys in leadership and design, and delve into imaginative perspectives on the industry. Sharing these speakers’ unique points of view and stories of lived experience drives visibility for new models of creative leadership that expand our collective possibilities. Please enjoy these recordings for free!


OUR PARTNERS


Yung Studio

Yung Studio is the creative force behind the evolved WILD brand, as our valued partner in bringing to life our visual identity and design system.

Founded by Melody Yung and based locally in the Bay Area, the studio specializes in developing early stage brands with unique positions strategies and comprehensive design systems.

Learn more about Yung Studio

CREDIT: Current WILD Logo (2023–Present) designed by Yung Studio; Previous WILD Logo (2018–22) designed by Sarah Gardziel