Aleiya Evison    Aleiya Evison comes to design with a background in ethnic studies and political science. She strives to investigate the relationship between equity, abundance, joy, and transformative politics. At the crossroads of design, storytelling, and healing justice, she is committed to imagining new realities for our communities and institutions. Focusing on theoretical frameworks which include Black Intersectional Feminism, Liberation Theory, and the Black Radical Imagination, she has come to the GSD to further understand what is possible when we critically address systems of oppression and injustice. Outside of school she works as a Fellow in racial justice at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, where she is creating a podcast on transformative justice, and working on the Beloved Streets of America Initiative.