Our Team

The University of Michigan’s Public Design Corps (U–M PDC) is made possible through the support and mentorship of leading faculty from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Mentors bring a breadth of international and local expertise in socially-driven design projects and assist student teams in navigating complex design challenges.

Student teams are selected through a competitive application process and matched with organizations pertinent to their academic and professional interests. In this way, community benefits and learning experiences for emerging designers are treated equivocally, cultivating opportunities for everyone involved.

2024 Designers

Tabita Aitonean
Jasmine Paulk
Natalia Boldt
Mariam Reyes-Toidze
Md Ehsan Alam
Chin-chieh Chen (Jess)
Stephanie Dutan
Yi-Chien Kuo
Yesha Madhubhai Malaviya
Akshita Mandhyan
Angie Perez
Chun Wang (Sheila)
Aaron Johnson
Shoaib Alshuja
Ranya Liu
Huy Dung Lou
Ngoc Minh Dang
Rongyu Shen
Charlie Tokowitz

2022 Designers

Miranda Bibb
Ivan Gort-Cabeza de Vaca
Lauren Jenkins
Quan Li
Kimberly Lindberg
Lindsey Lu
Nathanael Nelson
Chandana Rao
Jason Tran
Elijah Underhill-Miller
Liwen Wu
Wenyuan Zhang

2021 Designers

Aidan Barron
Autumn Bender
Ranya Betts-Chen
Miranda Bibb
Melissa Bissett
Serena Brewer
Tessa Broek
Max Coolidge
Ryan Dowdle
Huiting Du
Megan Finley
Demetrius Ford
Maya Fraser
Lei Guo
Andrew Hoover
Evan Hotary
Chen Huang
Alex Hutchinson
Kilala Ichie-Vincent
Ling Jin
Maho Kobayashi
Aracely Landero
Lindsay Li
John Li
Kimberly Lindberg
Camilla Lizundia
Zoë Meinke
Judith Mendoza
Iman Messado
Kristina Miesel
Fangtian Ni
Pilar O’Hara
Celia Olsen
Anmol Poptani
Anne Redmond
Aric Reed
Noelle Ridley
Simon Rivers
McKenna Sabon
Yikai Su
Ellen Taube
Sang Won Kang
Bangyu Xu
Deesy Xu
Siqi Yan
Danling Yu
Xuetong Zhai
Jun Zhou