Designing for Belonging
Kamilah Welch IT’08, a student with the Online Master of Design Studies Design for Human Health Program (MDS-DHH) at the Boston Architectural Center, has aspirations of using skills learned in the global workplace.
While working as an Education Team Lead at the Partners Neurology Residency Program in Boston, Kamilah regularly visited local jails to teach mindfulness techniques to incarcerated individuals awaiting trial. All of the people she encountered would either be released or sentenced and moved to a different correctional facility. She said, “The people I met wouldn’t be staying in the prison I was visiting. I started to think about what type of space could better help them with this transitional time.”