Anna Brown is a design researcher, educator and practitioner whose expertise is in participatory design. She is the founder and director of Toi Āria: Design for Public Good, a research unit at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University. She believes that design has a role to play in delivering public good and is interested in how conversations and community engagement can drive social change. Anna is a Professor at Massey, where she supervises postgraduate design students and is chair of Massey University Press. Anna maintains a deep interest in her first love — book design. More about Anna.