Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and author. Rawsthorn’s books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and her weekly design column for The New York Times was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. In all her work, Rawsthorn champions the role of design as a social, political and ecological tool. Rawsthorn is a founding member of the Writers for Liberty campaign for human rights and of DemocracyNext’s advisory board. Rawsthorn is also a cofounder, with Paola, of the Design Emergency podcast, which explores design’s role in fostering positive change.