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Category Archives: Press Coverage

DJDS in KQED, SF Examiner, Axios

3 September 2025

Designing Justice + Designing Spaces is transforming the justice system—one space at a time. Their latest project with Community Works in San Francisco was featured in KQED, The San Francisco Examiner and Axios.

Fiverr in Adweek, Ad Age

22 August 2025 — Tech

Fiverr’s latest campaign introduced Garry, an AI-generated character built entirely from a prompt by Fiverr freelancers. The campaign leans into real-time culture, spawning spinoff vignettes based on audience suggestions, from stranding Garry at sea to surrounding him with sharks. By embracing imperfection and internet humor, Fiverr highlights the value of human creativity in making AI […]

Dale Cecka of Albany Law in Gothamist

10 August 2025 — Law, Mission Driven

In an article for Gothamist, Professor Dale Margolin Cecka of Albany Law School discusses reasons to end anonymous reports of child abuse. If Governor Hochul signs it, New York would be the third state — along with Texas and California — to pass a law banning or curtailing anonymous reports.

DJDS in Governing

7 August 2025 — Design, Lifestyle, Mission Driven

Deanna Van Buren, Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces published an op-ed for Governing. Van Buren highlights proposed solutions for repurposing prisons and transforming them into thriving communities.

PFT in Agri-Pulse Open Mic Podcast

3 August 2025 — Conservation, Environment, Mission Driven

Laurie Wayburn of Pacific Forest Trust was a guest on the Agri-Pulse Open Mic podcast. Laurie says, “Betting on nature is to say: to weather this climate crisis, we need to be investing in our lands and our landowners to do the kind of stewardship that’s needed to get us through this enormously stressful time.”

Dale Cecka of Albany Law in The Imprint

31 July 2025 — Advocacy, Mission Driven

As Governor Hochul considers the Anti-Harassment in Reporting bill, Cecka published an op-ed in The Imprint arguing against anonymous reporting — drawing on her groundbreaking law review article, one of the first to call for ending the practice.

Dale Cecka of Albany Law on CBS6

31 July 2025 — Advocacy, Law, Mission Driven

Should New York State end anonymous reports of child abuse? Dale Cecka – whose law review article over a decade ago was amongst the first to argue for abolition of anonymous reporting, argues that Hochul must sign the Anti-Harassment Reporting Act. Watch the on-air interview here, or below.

Patrick Wildes of Albany Law in USA Today

31 July 2025 — Mission Driven

President Trump wants to lock up people with drug or mental health challenges. Advocates say lack of housing is the real problem. “The intention here in New York is not to and never should be to warehouse anybody,” said Patrick Wildes, the director of Albany Law School’s Government Law Center and the former state assistant […]

ALS Professor Zhaoyi Li in Law360

25 July 2025 — Advocacy, Law, Mission Driven

In Law360’s roundup of key international tax issues to watch in the second half of 2025, Professor Zhaoyi Li of Albany Law School commented on the U.S. Treasury’s push for a “side-by-side” system that would exempt U.S. companies from the OECD’s 15% global minimum tax. She noted this approach could give American companies a compliance […]

Ray Brescia op-ed in MSNBC

15 July 2025 — Law, Mission Driven, Op-ed

In an op-ed for MSNBC, Albany Law School professor Ray Brescia writes about ICE failing to comply with the most basic elements of due process.

Sourhouse in The New York Times

10 July 2025 — Art, Design, Lifestyle, Online Culture, Tech

Erik Fabian, Co-founder of Sourhouse, spoke to The New York Times about navigating tariff uncertainity as a small business.

Panthera in The Guardian

4 July 2025 — Conservation, Environment, Mission Driven

John Goodrich, Chief Scientist for Panthera, shared his harrowing tiger attack and his continued tiger conservation work with The Guardian. 

Ray Brescia op-ed in MSNBC

26 June 2025 — Advocacy, Mission Driven, Op-ed

In an op-ed for MSNBC, Albany Law School professor Ray Brescia writes about Emil Bove testifying before the Senate. 

DJDS in Design Milk

25 June 2025 — Design, Mission Driven

Designing Justice + Designing Spaces was featured in Design Milk for their collaboration with Formr on the Healing Forest Table Collection.

PFT in Sacramento Bee

17 June 2025 — Conservation, Environment, Mission Driven

Laurie Wayburn of Pacific Forest Trust published an op-ed for the Sacramento Bee, highlighting a key opportunity to stretch wildfire prevention budgets through a simple, bipartisan amendment to the Fix Our Forests Act. 

Ray Brescia op-ed in MSNBC

7 June 2025 — Advocacy, Mission Driven, Op-ed

In an op-ed for MSNBC, Albany Law School professor Ray Brescia writes about Elon Musk’s attack on the courts.

Sourhouse in WIRED

7 June 2025 — Lifestyle, Tech

WIRED received an exclusive preview of the Doughbed from Sourhouse ahead of its September launch.

DJDS in ABC7

6 June 2025 — Art, Design, Mission Driven

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Deanna Van Buren of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces went on ABC7 to talk about the Healing Forest Tables, where every purchase creates ripples of change.

Black Heritage Trail NH in Axios

2 June 2025 — Culture, Mission Driven

JerriAnne Boggis, executive director of The Black Heritage Trail of NH was interviewed by Axios, highlighting their 12-day Juneteenth celebration.

ALS Professor Dale Cecka in USA Today

2 June 2025 — Mission Driven

Professor Dale Margolin Cecka of Albany Law School, published an op-ed on USA Today to address the societal blind spots around domestic violence using recent headlines involving Diddy and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Ray Brescia op-ed in MSNBC

24 May 2025 — Law, Mission Driven, Op-ed

In an op-ed for MSNBC, Albany Law School professor Ray Brescia writes about the legal challenges the Trump administration faces due to their attempts to freeze billions in grants to Harvard University.

Ray Brescia in MSNBC

24 May 2025 — Law, Mission Driven, Op-ed

Albany Law School’s professor, Ray Brescia, published an op-ed in MSNBC addressing the legal implications of President Trump’s retaliation against Harvard.

Springboard in SSIR

14 May 2025 — #springboardforthearts, Art

In an essay for Stanford Social Innovation Review, Laura Zabel of Springboard for the Arts argues for a fundamental reimagining of how we support creativity.