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
WILD PERSPECTIVES
WILD Portraits: Ayesha Mathews
WILD Portraits: Nicole Parente-Lopez — Part 2
WILD Portraits: Nicole Parente-Lopez — Part 1
Volunteer Opportunities for AIGA SF’s WILD
WILD Portraits: Rachel Gogel — Part 1
WILD Portraits: Rachel Gogel — Part 2
UPCOMING EVENTS
Stay tuned!
PAST EVENTS
WILD Meetup: Girl Gang Craft Fair Holiday Gathering, Oakland
Oakland, Scottish Rite Center 1547 Lakeside Drive Oakland, CA 94612
Sat, Dec 2, 2023
WILD Voices: The Art of Community Building: Takeaways from Design Buddies, a 60,000+ Member community with Grace Ling
Virtual – Watch the Replay!
Thurs, Nov 16, 2023
WILD Voices: Gen AI & climate — exploring the next design and business opportunity with IDEO’s Savannah Kunovsky + Natalia Vasquez
Virtual – Watch the Replay!
Thurs, Oct 26, 2023
WILD October Meetup
OMCA – Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Fri, Oct 27, 2023
WILD September Meetup
Presidio Tunnel Tops, San Francisco
Sat, Sept 23, 2023
WILD Voices: Ana Arriola-Kanada
Virtual – Watch the Replay!
Tue, July 25, 2023
WILD July Meetup
Salesforce Ampitheater, San Francisco
Sun, July 16, 2023
WILD Voices: Lisa Adang
Virtual – Watch the Replay!
Thurs, June 29, 2023
WILD June Meetup
Temescal Brewing, Oakland
Sat, June 17, 2023
WILD Voices: Tanya Bhandari
Virtual – Watch the Replay!
Tue, May 30, 2023
WILD May Meetup
Esplanade, Yerba Buena Gardens
Sat, May 20, 2023
WILD April Meetup
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Sun, Apr. 30, 2023
WILD Voices: Kim West
Virtual – Watch the Replay!
Wed, Apr. 19, 2023
WILD Voices: Alejandra Castelao
Virtual – Watch the Replay!
Mon, Mar. 27, 2023
WILD March Meetup
Manny’s
Sun, Mar. 19, 2023
WILD Voices: A Conversation with Dee Speed
Virtual – Watch the Replay!
Fri, Feb. 24, 2023
WILD February Meetup
Yerba Buena Gardens
Sat, Feb. 11, 2023
WILD November Meetup
Off the Grid: Fort Mason Center
Fri, Nov. 18, 2022
WILD October Meetup
Off the Grid: Fort Mason Center
Fri, Oct. 21, 2022
WILD September Meetup
Off the Grid: Fort Mason Center
Fri, Sept. 23, 2022
WILD August Meetup
Off the Grid: Fort Mason Center
Fri, August 05, 2022
WILD Vision Board Party
Virtual
Saturday, June 25, 2022
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.
Donate to WILD Join WILD ListWant 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
OUR PARTNERS
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.