Jen Ng
PR Volunteer
Jen is a queer, Asian-American brand and product designer based in NYC. She’s spearheaded digital experiences for eCommerce, mHealth, fashion, education, and job-matching platforms for agencies and freelance clients — synthesizing research insights through storytelling for startup stakeholders while identifying key business opportunities.
She works on social justice projects rooted in LGBTQIA+ issues, race relations, youth empowerment and women’s advocacy for Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls; and previously, for media outlets including The Heart, Venus Zine and BUST. She currently organizes the event series Design x Activism, a creative think tank working together to address social justice issues through conversations and real-time workshopping in an interactive, virtual magazine format covering themes of Empathy, Language, Access, Invisibility and more. Her work explores ways that story and identity work together to strengthen communities.
After entering the field of product design where Asian-American designers skew towards the norm, she continues owning the status — and is empowered by — being Odd-One-Out when it comes to initiating conversations about social justice and equity-centered design solutions. In the heyday of the Black Lives Matter movement, she feels out-of-place when the media is doubling down on BIPOC communities, with Asians being neither here, nor there. Jen’s lifelong status of being a Misfit fuels her to help us relate to one another by bringing out our shared qualities, while also embracing our differences — so that we are all seen, heard and invited.
Website: https://jenng.com/
Instagram: @funfetti_party
Twitter: @funfetti_party