San Francisco State University

Dr. Fernando Carvalho is a designer with a primary focus on healthcare service, products and systems. His research integrates participatory design and behavior change to the creation and improvement of healthcare service provision. Fernando is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University.

Josie Iselin is an artist, author, and book designer who has been telling seaweed and kelp stories for over a decade. Her two books An Ocean Garden: The Secret Life of Seaweed (2014, reprint 2023 OSU Press) and The Curious World of Seaweed (Heyday, 2019), tap her profound understanding of seaweed’s natural history and her deep connections within the seaweed science community. Both books have won the Tiffany Award for algal communications by the Phycological Society of America. Josie is co-director of the Above/Below campaign whose mission is to make the kelp forests of the oceans as understood as the forests on land. She is the lead author and content director of the campaign’s webstory, The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp, published in November 2023. Above/Below is embarking on the storytelling journey around the native West Coast Olympia oyster. She teaches in the School of Design at San Francisco State University, inspiring the integration of art and storytelling through portfolio design. Her work is on view at josieiselin.com