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

Zipeng Zhu is a Chinese-born designer, art director, illustrator and animator in New York City who wants to make everyday a razzle-dazzle musical. His clients include Apple, Adidas, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Twitter, Netflix, Harry’s, Viacom, The New Yorker, Fox, Away, Animal Planet, CNN, Refinery29, Chobani, and Samsung. After he graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, he worked at Pentagram and Sagmeister & Walsh. He was one of the Art Directors Club Young Guns 13 winners and has been recognized as Print magazine’s New Visual Artist and The One Show Young Ones. His work has been exhibited all over the world including New York, Barcelona, Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai and other major museums and institutions. Now he runs his creative practice Dazzle Studio and gift shop Dazzle Supply to push dazzle to the next level.

Audrey Sasson is the Executive Director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice. She has close to 20 years of broad movement experience, as a social worker, organizer, coalition-builder, and campaign director, on issues ranging from immigrant worker struggles and tenant rights to sustainable economies and racial justice. Since moving to New York City more than 15 years ago, she has worked in the non-profit sector and in organized labor, most recently as Director of Walmart-Free NYC. She holds a BA and a BSW from McGill University in Canada and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Mohamed Attia is the Director of the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center. He immigrated to the US from Alexandria, Egypt in 2008. He worked as a food vendor for nearly ten years. He became a member of the Street Vendor Project in 2012, was elected to the Leadership Board, and served on the board until 2018, when he joined SVP’s staff. He participated and leads the work of SVP’s Biggest campaign Lift The Caps, that aims to eliminatie the limits on the number of permits and licenses and legalizing the work of street vendors in NYC.

Alice Chung is a founding partner at Omnivore. She has collaborated with clients such as Princeton University School of Architecture, Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, Luhring Augustine Gallery, University Settlement, and artist Polly Apfelbaum on endeavors ranging fromidentity systems to websites and publications. She studied at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University where she received a B.A. in biology and a M.P.H. in health and social behavior. Her graduate work led her to shift her focus to design studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at Yale University School of Art.