Project M Alum
Jillian is also active alumni of Project M. Founded by John Bielenberg, Project M is program that is designed to inspire and educate young designers, writers, photographers and filmmakers by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world. Project M has developed projects to help a conservation area in Costa Rica, Micro-financing in Ghana, New Orleans after Katrina, the communities of East Baltimore, Detroit, Rural Connecticut and Iceland, and connecting households to fresh water in Hale County, Alabama.
PieLab Supporter
PieLab, an initiative of Project M, is focused on community development and engagement in Hale County, AL. PieLab is a welcoming community space on Greensboro’s Main Street that provides delicious pie and coffee, as well as retail and hospitality job training for local youth through the YouthBuild Program. More than simply a pie shop, PieLab operates as a community design center focusing on community development projects and small business incubation in Greensboro and the surrounding five counties.
(blank)lab Volunteer
(blank)LAB is a mobile studio constructed from a 20’ Hyundai shipping container that brings designers and communities together. It engages in the communities it visits in the hopes of fostering creative collaborations. The conversations that naturally occur when disparate groups are introduced, possibly for the first time, will be the catalyst for design projects meant to foster positive change. Essentially (blank)LAB is an incubator for creative minds to transform.
It has already engaged with over 200 people at various design conferences; "Better World by Design Conference" in Providence, RI, AIGA's "MAKE/THINK" in Memphis, TN and the "ACSA/NCAA" conference in St. Louis, MO.
Engage/Transform Pledge
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