Building Connections and Community Beyond the Classroom
summary
Inneract Project claims measurable impact: 3,200 hours of hands-on training for over 1,500 students and connections to roughly 10,000 professionals. During 2020 a rapid interview-prep effort using a low-code Google Forms + Calendly + public spreadsheet workflow scales to 150 mentors and 200 sessions in weeks. That scrappy toolset later becomes Uplift, a free platform built with volunteer engineers and illustrators, launched to match underrepresented early-career designers with mentors.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:35The history of Inneract Project
- 5:21Supporting BIPOC designers through the challenges of 2020
- 7:18The creation of IP: interview prep
- 10:44Mentor & mentee feedback
- 13:50Uplift: the journey & how we got here
- 16:50Uplift launch & how you can get involved
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