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Jennifer Rittner

Jennifer Rittner is a writer, educator and communications strategist currently serving as Visiting Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design. She guest edited a special issue on design and policing for Design Museum magazine (2021); and co-edited The Black Experience in Design (2022) with Anne H. Berry and Kelly Walters.

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Like Elizabeth Holmes, Design Students are Being Taught to Present Optimism over Reality

by Jennifer Rittner February 17, 2022February 17, 2022

Many of these MFA design programs are teaching fraud at scale.

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