Jessica Bellamy: Graduate Lecture Series at PNCA

The Collaborative Design and Design Systems graduate programs at Pacific Northwest College of Art are excited to welcome Jessica Bellamy for a lecture on her work and practice as part of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Spring 2020 Lecture Series.

Jessica is an award-winning international speaker, workshop facilitator, motion infographic designer, and research analyst. She and her colleague Josh Poe are the founders of the Root Cause Research Center which is a grassroots-led institution that collects data, creates data visuals, and trains impacted community members in research and data storytelling.

Jessica Bellamy presents and gives workshops on information design and data equity in the United States and in other countries such as Germany and Canada. She presents at conferences as well as at universities such as Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, Vermont College of Fine Arts, ArtCenter, and Yale.

International speaker, Adobe Creative Residency alumna, and award-winning infographic designer, Jessica Bellamy, graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Louisville (UofL) with degrees in Drawing (BFA), Graphic Design (BFA), Pan African Studies (BA), and a minor in Communication. As a former Neurodevelopmental Science research analyst at UofL, community organizer, and after six years of working with nonprofits and community groups to create infographics, she co-founded the Root Cause Research Center (RCRC). The RCRC is a grassroots-led research center that collects data, tells visual data stories, as well as works alongside and trains impacted community members in research and data storytelling. She has been featured in Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global, Forbes, Communication Arts Magazine, The Great Discontent, Create Magazine, Creative Mornings, Slack, The Dieline, Revision Path, and on Adobe’s Project 1324 (viewable through Facebook).