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Justin Lee

In New Orleans East, New Orleans Proper, and Lower New Orleans, Black and Asian women are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards, including high levels of fecal coliform contamination in water sources, as a result of environmental racism. Critical public health data, especially around pregnancy outcomes, is often missing or intentionally obscured, making it difficult to understand the full impact. Traditional maps and health reports erase or misrepresent these realities. There is an urgent need for alternative mapping that centers marginalized women, challenges institutional failures, and makes environmental violence visible through a community driven anarchist approach. Through my designs, I make invisible environmental and health crises visible. I highlight where fecal contamination, environmental racism, and missing pregnancy health data collide. I center community knowledge over institutional narratives, offering maps that empower the people most affected. I am making these maps to show what is happening and to make sure these communities are not erased.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

In professional practice, the students completed a series of projects, including “Why Design” posters, poetry book mockups, wine label mockups, and “Big Type Show” Advertising posters.