Céline Semaan

Céline Semaan-Vernon is a Lebanese-Canadian artist, designer, writer, and advocate.

Her book A Woman Is A School (2024) is on traditional ecological knowledge in the Global South.

She is the founder of Slow Factory Foundation, a 501c3 public service organization. She is on the council of Progressive International, became a Director's Fellow of MIT Media Lab in 2016, and served on the board of directors of American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) NY, a nonprofit design organization

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