Storefront for Community Design is excited to welcome spring semester interns to our team. As Design Education Interns, they will help us create the Design Richmond guidebook and coordinate our City Builders Design programming.
Welcome Natalie Díaz! Natalie is currently in the Master’s of Urban Planning program at VCU where she came to know Storefront for Community Design after meeting a staff member who was guest lecturing in her class. After eight years of teaching Spanish, Natalie was ready for change and decided to go back to school. As Design Education Intern, Natalie is collaborating with our team and stakeholders on the creation of the Design Richmond activity book and will lends a hand to the City Builders program.
Welcome Nyka Belotti! Nyka is a two spirit man studying sculpture at VCUarts. He has been an advocate almost all his life and strives to give a voice to the voiceless. As Design Education Intern, Nyka is collaborating with our City Builders Design program as an educator and collaborates to give youth the confidence and tools to change their own city!