About
Hatch and Flock creates radical spaces of opportunity through transformative education and community collaboration. Our vision for collective liberation is centered on cultural empowerment, transformational restoration, and creative freedom. Our audience centers community members between the ages of 18-25, in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, Minnesota, and nationally.We have worked together for over 10 years with a combined experience of over 40 years. Collaboratively, our work centers on creating design approaches, like Racism Untaught, that addresses racism, anti-Blackness, and other forms of oppression through iterative design processes.
We prioritize impact through our two foundational pillars:
Hatch
Education/Collective Learning
Multiple Ways of Knowing
Acknowledging Positionality
Experiential Learning & Methodologies
Flock
Collaboration
Building Relational Trust
Community Organizing
Intentional Action and Accountability
Lisa Elzey Mercer (she/her) is a designer, educator, and researcher. Her interests are in developing and executing design interventions that fuel and sustain responsible design for social impact. The developed frameworks and tools are intended to create a space for conversation and knowledge exchange where participants can collaborate in creating new ideas and solutions.
Terresa Moses, PhD (she/her) is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown people through art and design. She is the Creative Director at Blackbird Revolt and a community-engaged scholar who created Project Naptural and co-created Racism Untaught. She is a core team member of African American Graphic Designers and collaborator with the Black Liberation Lab.
This includes H&F board members and the following mentors who help to hold us accountable in our actions and prioritize the impact of our work. The FAC explores how design might be leveraged for cultural empowerment, transformational restoration, and creative freedom in the design industry.
Board Members
Maria Gillombardo
Maria Miller
Dominique Dao Mueller
Jeanine Weekes Schroer, Ph.D.
Christine Simon, Ph.D.
Additional Advisors
To be announced.
H&F Student Fellows
To be announced.
Partners + Sponsors
We seek to work with partners and sponsors who are engaged or like to support organizations focused on transformative education.
Hatch
We are excited to share the evidence of impact of Hatch & Flock as we work with our advisory collective to develop and implement a collective learning environment. We look forward to engaging with student fellows where they are learning to collaborate with us, with each other, and with community.
Education/Collective Learning
Multiple Ways of Knowing
Acknowledging Positionality
Experiential Learning & Methodologies
Collaboration
Building Relational Trust
Community Organizing
Intentional Action and Accountability
Flock
We are interested in working with emerging designers on projects focused on community engagement and activism through design. As educators from higher education, we noticed a gap in access for emerging designers who are interested in doing this work and are looking for ways to create sustainable relationships with our communities. We are currently working as a fiscal sponsor to the organizations:
