Each year CUP has a jury of two people prominent in arts and design fields, and two people prominent in organizing and advocacy fields select our Making Policy Public collaborations for the upcoming year. As experts in their respective fields, having the jury determine the issue areas and collaborations for the year is also a way for CUP to ensure that our projects emerge from and are accountable to the communities we serve. For more information applying as an advocate, click here, and for more on applying as a designer, click here.

With that, we’re so excited to welcome our jury!

Natalia Aristizabal is the Co-Director of Organizing at Make the Road, New York, the largest grassroots community organization in New York offering services and organizing the immigrant community.

Raymond Audain is Senior Counsel at the NAACP LDF, where, through litigation, he works to achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. Raymond is also an adjunct professor at NYU Law School, where he co-teaches a clinic on racial equity strategies.

Tracy Ma is the Visual Editor at the New York Times Styles desk, and was formerly the Deputy Creative Director of Bloomberg Businessweek. She was born in British Hong Kong and moved to Toronto, Canada in 1996. She lives in Chinatown, New York.

Jillian Tamaki is an illustrator and comics artist living in Toronto, Canada. A professional artist since 2003, she has worked for publications around the world and taught extensively in New York City at the undergraduate and graduate level. She is the co-creator, with her cousin Mariko Tamaki, of Skim and This One Summer, the latter of which won a Caldecott Honor and Printz Award in 2015. Her first picture book, They Say Blue, which explores our perception and experience of the natural world, was released in the Spring of 2018.