Justin Walker

Justin Walker is a researcher, designer, and strategist with a primary focus on the practices of anti-racist design, co-designing with communities, and systems design. Through his work, he identifies racist outcomes and experiences within social systems and designs anti-racist interventions and infrastructures that address them. Along with his team at ChiByDesign, an anti-racist design firm pioneering the practice, he’s co-developing anti-racist design methods and tools for identifying and addressing structural racism. 

Justin is a design researcher and strategist at ChiByDesign, where he leads and supports the design of anti-racist social interventions across Chicago and trains leaders across the country to practice anti-racist design. Before joining ChiByDesign, Justin was a management consultant, leading financial transformations for fortune 500 clients while working with Clearsulting. His experience also includes time at EY working across regulatory compliance, financial crimes, large-scale technology implementations, and service offering development.