Njoki currently works as a design and strategy consultant. She spent eight years at IDEO as a visual designer, design director, and creative leader and one year as a brand director at InVision. She earned her MFA from the graduate program at the Yale University School of Art and has a bachelor's degree in geology. In a prior life she worked for six years as an assistant curator for the petrology collection at the American Museum of Natural History.
She likes and makes things, and will make them for you.
Projects
- Sparking a Conversation Around Policing in NYC(Excerpted from https://www.ideo.com/case-study/sparking-a-conversation-around-policing-in-nyc) New Yorkers experience policing differently depending on who they are and where they live. Some communities are patrolled; others are profiled. When your neighbors’ experiences are starkly different from your own, it can be almost impossible to understand their perspective. The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), a state branch of the ACLU, hoped to spark a dialogue around race and police tactic
- Your School, Your Choice!Choosing a public high school in New York City is an overwhelming process! It’s hard for any new student to make a decision about which of the more than 600 schools is the right one for them. But for recently arrived immigrant students and their families, there are even more barriers to enrolling in school. Resources to help with this process are hard to find and rarely available in languages other than English. Many students don’t know they have the right to ask for help in their language, and
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Projects credited in
- Championing Diversity: This Black History Month 2018, meet 100 creatives inspiring changeThis Black History Month 2018, we’ve brought together a group of outstanding industry heroes to each nominate 10 black changemakers and creators that are shaping culture, arts, design, business, tech and beyond. We still have a way to go when it comes to conquering the lack of diversity in the creative industry - which is why it so important for us, as a platform, to use our force for good. To do so, throughout the year we spotlight incredible people, the projects that they are involved with141
Work history
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Creative Designer and StrategistConsulting
New York, United StatesFreelance
Director, Brand DesignInVision
- New York, United StatesFull Time
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Skills
- Typography
- Strategy
- Writing
- Branding
- Facilitation
- Design
- Consulting