Heather Snyder Quinn
Visiting Faculty, MFA in Graphic Design
Profile
Heather Snyder Quinn is usually where she “isn’t supposed to be.” You will find her playing in unexpected places, physical or virtual, and collaborating with people from an array of backgrounds. She uses design fiction to empower communities to imagine possible futures and understand technology’s impact on human freedoms, including artificial intelligence and the metaverse. Heather’s work has been recognized by the Washington Post, Hyperallergic, and The Letterform Archive and published internationally, most recently in Feminist Designer, Attending to Futures, and The World Economic Forum.
She is writing her first book, Technologies of Deception, an anthology stemming from a conference at Yale Law School that brought together disciplines including art, design, technology, ethics, futurism, and policymaking. Heather received her MFA in Graphic Design from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2018 and her BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996, where she taught for ten years. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Design, the Wicklander Fellow in Ethics, and an OpEd Public Voice Fellow at DePaul University’s Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media, School of Design, and Director of Design Futures for Design Incubation. She loves people, text messaging, phone books, improv, practical jokes, East Coast pizza, obstacle courses, The X Files, memes, and raising her two teenage daughters.