A club for queering design

Sloan Leo  is a social impact strategist,  facilitator, and community designer with over 15 years of experience in the nonprofit sector.  

As the Founder & CEO of FLOX Studio—a nonprofit management consulting practice launched in 2020—Sloan partners with philanthropic, cultural, and social impact institutions to co-create strategy rooted in deep organizational buy-in and collective vision. They are known for asking and answering the essential question: “How will we move forward together?”

Sloan’s background includes managing the boards of some of the nation’s leading environmental organizations, raising over $25 million in major gifts, and stewarding transformative strategic planning processes. Their joy comes from leading teams toward big wins and bold visions that center belonging, collaboration, and community resilience.

Rose Hsu (she/they) is a Taiwanese American Gen Z, multidisciplinary designer, strategist, artist, and activist. On a journey of finding alignment between the work she does, her values and authenticity, Rose centers interconnectedness in her practice. Only through interconnectedness do we find wholeness. Rose has led design & strategy work at Deloitte Digital, FLOX Studio, and is also a UX product designer. Working with a wide range of clients from corporate to social impact organizations to starting her own studio, Mutuall Design and zine collective, UNITY, Rose embraces the multiplicity of the creative world and how it can shape culture and behavior. In the next few years, Rose hopes to empower Gen Z practitioners, and design systems and experiences that reconnect us with community and nature. Ultimately, Rose strives to bring intentionality into design to begin laying foundations for a sustainable, queer future.

Killian Poolmans (he/him) is a social design engineer, facilitator, and the founder of Pinkhammer, where he builds self-sustaining queer communities within organizations by mixing expert workshop facilitation with deep LGBTQ+ inclusion know-how.

For over 7 years, he’s been working with teams to design better systems, braver spaces, and more equitable ways of working. From Berlin to Tbilisi, Melbourne to Seoul, his projects blend cultural insight, systems thinking, and design expertise to create environments where creativity and belonging can actually thrive.

With one foot in design and the other firmly planted in queer theory, Killian’s vision is unapologetically bold: redesign the way we innovate so that the future we build isn’t just functional — it’s liberating. Designing change, not just products. Building belonging, not just teams.

Rashid Owoyele is an expert in Social Innovation and Cooperativist/Worker-centered Design. Previously Owoyele earned a bachelor of arts in Environmental Ethics & Design as well as a minor certificate in Environmental Science in Public Health from Indiana University. Since obtaining an MFA in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York in 2013, Rashid has carried out social impact and social innovation projects on 5 continents, with more than 1,000 students and professionals. Most recently Owoyele began doctoral research while employed at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin (2020-2022).

Teaching, formerly, at The New School, University of Cincinnati, Design Akademie Berlin, and University for the Arts Berlin among others; Rashid has extensive experience facilitating ideation workshops at the fuzzy front end of the innovation process, but is most passionate about systems change and transformation design and hopes to bring these skills to fruition through the launch of the social innovation agency Transekt UG (2023).

Previous projects that may be of interest from this portfolio: (2013) The New School’s Sylvia-Rivera-Boggs Social Justice Hub. (2013) Make Your Mark, an urbanism program for youth developed with collaborations at 3 parks throughout the NYC Parks Department. (2014) Studio C, a social innovation program and platform designed and developed with United Way that guided 8 non-profit organizations through developing their own Design Thinking capacities in a transdisciplinary setting.

Mari Nakano (she/they) is a systems designer, organizational strategist, educator, researcher, and food sovereignty advocate. Their practice is centered around relationship-building through the lens of community organizing, gathering, and collective learning through making. Through their work as an educator at major design institutions like the MFA Design for Social Innovation Program at the School of Visual Arts and Stanford d.school, their experience building and directing multi-disciplinary teams at the NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity’s Service Design Studio and UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, and their experience in non-profit and private sector start-ups, Mari continues to shift hierarchies, untangle oppressive systems, and participate in developing and applying approaches that better enable communities to thrive.

Stuart Getty (they/them) is a writer, design director, gender educator, filmmaker and ritualist — at the heart of everything they do is finding soul and meaning in every story. They are currently a Senior Design Director and writer at IDEO, a global design consultant, and help lead the company’s Inclusive Design practice. They are also a published author, (“How to They/Them”, 2020) and have spent years traveling to schools, companies, and organizations o teach about gender.  Stuart lives in so-called Duluth, MN and calls Chester Creek their daily holy sanctuary. They also joke they are in a three-way marriage with their wife and the great mother, Lake Superior.

Joey Zeledón (he/they/she) doesn’t just design things — they elevate them, helping products reach their higher purpose. An award-winning designer with nearly two decades of experience, Joey has collaborated with top industry names including HP, Steelcase, Smart Design, Continuum, and Clarks. Their work spans everyday objects to thoughtfully reimagined furniture, blending emotional depth with practicality — always with a focus on comfort, connection, and meaning. Joey is the author of Design is Trans, exploring design as a vehicle for self-discovery and for expressing the true identity of the objects we create, and Touchy/Feely, which champions emotional ergonomics by reminding us that great design isn't just about how something looks or works, but about how it feels.