Hanieh Khosroshahi

Brief Biography:

I’m Hanieh (she/her), an independent design consultant, researcher, and facilitator working in pursuit of people and the planet.

For the past decade, I have applied the principles and methods of Human-centred Design, participatory research, and systems thinking to design, test, and scale innovative and impactful solutions, both online and offline. My mission is to advance the health, opportunities, and rights of those on the margins, with a particular focus on youth and women in under-served and low-resource settings.

Some of the projects I have led include: researching settlement challenges for Syrian refugees in Canada, equipping healthcare workers to counsel and refer young people to mental health services in Tanzania, and increasing sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents in Rwanda.

Areas of Expertise:

- Human-centred design, participatory research, and codesign
- User Experience and service design, prototyping and testing, MVP build and digital innovation
- Trauma-informed facilitation, capacity building and training development
- Program and methodology design, social behaviour change, design strategy
- Leadership, strategic planning, advocacy, writing, and community building
- Youth engagement, youth-driven design, feminist and decolonial praxis

Contact Info:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haniehk/

Website: http://hanieh.me/