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Terresa Moses is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown communities through art and design. As a designer and illustrator, her work focuses primarily on race, identity, and social justice. She advocates for positive change in her community using creativity as tools of community activism and organizing like her solo intersectional exhibition, Umbra, and her community distro project, Stop Killing Black People. She intentionally create spaces and support initiatives in which members of the academic and broader community might challenge their own positionality in the context of oppression and understand through a cross-disciplinary lens how their personal experiences and biases affect their outcomes.

Moses’ work supports and is inspired by racial activist movements. She uses design and illustration to communicate messaging that activates community and inspires positive change. Her passion for design and racial justice has provided her with the opportunity to be a part of creative and innovative brands, projects, and campaigns from print, film, and interaction design. As the Owner and Creative Director of Blackbird Revolt— an abolitionist design and production studio— she uses design innovation to further Black liberatory and abolitionist efforts. Because of the identities she holds and her scholarship within areas of identity, she is compelled to support projects which validate and uncover systemic and institutional racism through her creative work.

In continuing her anti-racist work within the academy, she is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design, McKnight Presidential Fellow, and the Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota’s College of Design. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design and African American Studies in 2008 and her Master of Fine Arts in Design Research and Anthropology in 2015 from the University of North Texas. As a life-long learner, she recently completed her doctorate in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto exploring how the movement for Black lives in Minneapolis might influence the curricular foundation of graphic design education. With Black liberation as a core mission of her academic work, the courses she creates and teaches engage students in anti-racism and anti-oppressive frameworks. As a community engaged scholar, her design research interests include; Project Naptural — which creates spaces to educate, connect, and empower Black women about their natural hair and self-identity— and Racism Untaught— a curriculum model that reveals ‘racialized’ design and helps students, educators, and organizations create anti-racist design approaches through the design research process. She has multiple publications including two books published by MIT Press, Racism Untaught and An Anthology of Blackness.

As a continued advocate for education, Moses acquired Black Garnet Books in November 2024. Her independent bookstore located in Saint Paul, Minnesota offers a curated selection of books and art by Black and brown authors and illustrators in an environment that encourages learning, joyful interaction, and communal care.

She currently serves historically underinvested communities by planning Black liberatory protests, drafting abolitionist policy, and using design as a tool for mass communication and movement unification. She is currently a board member of Black Liberation Lab— an organization which co-creates solutions to support Black liberation. She also co-founded Hatch & Flock, to create radical spaces of opportunity through transformative education and community collaboration.

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Terresa Moses is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown communities through art and design. As a designer and illustrator, her work focuses primarily on race, identity, and social justice. She advocates for positive change in her community using creativity as tools of community activism and organizing like her solo intersectional exhibition, Umbra, and her community distro project, Stop Killing Black People.

Terresa is the Owner and Creative Director at Blackbird Revolt, an abolitionist  design and production studio. She is also an Associate Professor of Graphic Design and a McKnight Presidential Fellow as well as the Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota’s College of Design. As a community engaged scholar, her design research interests include; Project Naptural, which creates spaces to educate, connect, and empower Black women about their natural hair and self-identity, and Racism Untaught, a curriculum model that reveals ‘racialized’ design and helps students, educators, and organizations create anti-racist concepts through the design research process. She has multiple publications including two books through MIT Press, Racism Untaught and An Anthology of Blackness. As a continued advocate for education, Moses acquired Black Garnet Books, an independent bookstore in Saint Paul offers a curated selection of books and art by Black and brown authors and illustrators.

She earned her BFA in Fashion Design and African American Studies at the University of North Texas in 2008. In 2015, she earned her MFA in Design Research and Anthropology. In 2024, she earned her PhD in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto.

As a community organizer, she serves on the advisory board of the Black Liberation Lab to co-create solutions that support Black liberation. She also co-founded Hatch & Flock, to create radical spaces of opportunity through transformative education and community collaboration.

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Terresa Moses is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown people through art and design. She uses creativity as tools of community activism like her exhibition, Umbra, and her community distro project, Stop Killing Black People. She created Project Naptural and co-created Racism Untaught. She has published two books, Racism Untaught and An Anthology of Blackness.

Moses is the Owner & Creative Director at Blackbird Revolt— an abolitionist design and production studio. She is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design, McKnight Presidential Fellow, and Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota. She is the Owner of Black Garnet Books— an independent bookstore in Saint Paul curating books from authors of color.

She earned her doctorate in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. She serves on the advisory board of the Black Liberation Lab and co-founded Hatch & Flock.

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Dr. Terresa Moses is dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown people through design. She’s the Owner of Blackbird Revolt and Black Garnet Books. She’s an Associate Professor of Graphic Design and the Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota. She serves on the advisory board of Black Liberation Lab and co-founded Hatch & Flock.