N’Deye Diakhate
N’Deye Diakhate is a design collaborator who loves working with fellow artists, creatives, and researchers on ways we can move towards our collective liberation.
A Senegalese-American from White Plains, NY, N’Deye studied graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011. While based in Baltimore for the last 10 years, their work has shown up in creative collaborations and radical design research. From 2014-2018, they began their cultural organizing work as a founding member of art collective BG, developing exhibitions, panels, and film screenings centering women of color. In 2017 N’Deye began collaborating with Black Womxn Flourish, where they co-design and facilitate community engagements, qualitative research, and client consultations that aim to redefine what it means for Black women to be well. With a grassroots background in design research, they have facilitated ideation sessions with a variety of collaborators, ranging from nursing researchers at Johns Hopkins to focus groups with incarcerated individuals in Maryland.
Currently a student at Fordham University pursuing a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Social Work, N’Deye is a designer who wants to be a therapist when they grow up. They believe a deep understanding of our needs as humans and the systems we live in can help us better design a world that meets our truest needs.
You can reach out at ndeyedesign@gmail.com