Mindy is a multiple award-winning media artist, activist, researcher, and educator and is widely regarded as a leading authority on youth media, digital literacy, and connected learning.
Education is in Mindy’s blood—her father helped lead school desegregation in the South. Yet school wasn’t designed for the way she learned best—hands-on and project-based. She knew that teaching could support countless new ways of learning. Video art saved her as a young person, providing a way to delve into her interests, explore ideas, and process complex emotions—all without constraints.
As an adult, she realized she wanted to work with young people to help them find their own voice through media arts, just like she did when she was younger. Education became key to unlocking new possibilities to live out her values of social justice and equity. She went on to serve as the Video Data Bank associate director at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, taught media arts at Evanston High School, founded Open Youth Networks, co-chaired the Chicago Youth Voices Network, and organized the 3G Summit on the Future of Girls, Gaming, and Gender at the department of Interactive Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago.
From 2013-2016, Faber led the Convergence Academies, a multi-million dollar U.S. Department of Education whole-school transformation initiative. In 2016, the Academies became Convergence Design Lab. Now she serves as the executive director overseeing operations, and leading research, assessment, and evaluation efforts on behalf of clients.
Mindy holds an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and certificates in E-Learning and Digital Culture and Learning Experience Design.
mindy@convergencedesignlab.org
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