Lindsee Downer
Project Manager

Lindsee Downer (she/her) is a multidisciplinary designer and cultural strategist based in Brooklyn, New York. 


Her lived-experience as a Black Gen Z woman, practice in pedagogy and visual communications, and educational background (Strategic Design and Management BBA, Parsons School of Design) has shaped her work. Research is the foundation to each of her endeavors, whether it is desk-based, cultural and reference based, or ethnographic and qualitative. Her experience in service design has brought her close to marginalized communities through quantitative research methods. 

Additionally, her capstone project centering Public Pedagogy for Black Gen Z has led to her ongoing thesis regarding political mobilization in similar populations. Her ideas have begun to garner attention, and as a result she has led public conversations with speakers like designer Matt Pecina of StudioGUAPO and Trebor Schultz, a leading scholar of the Platform Cooperative movement and author of Own This! How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet. 

Lindsee is the founder of PLTN, a creative cooperative of Black Gen Z thinkers delivering radical consulting for creative and community projects. She is also a Growhouse Advisory Board Member and a design researcher and strategist at the Public Policy Lab.