Linda Dounia is a designer and artist. 

She uses play and co-creation to imagine technology that is more accessible and less extractive. 

She is Head of Design at Playlab, an education nonprofit building open AI infrastructure for educators. She believes that the future of education will be defined by how the cooperation between educators and intelligent systems is designed. Rather than build AI that does the work for you, she experiments with how AI can be a credible partner in teaching and learning. 

In 2023, Linda was named to the TIME100 AI list for her work on speculative archiving: building AI models that help us remember what is lost in training data. In 2024, she received Mozilla's RISE25 award for her work in AI.


linda@playlab.ai
linda.rebeiz@gmail.com

    ABOUTWORK

    IMPROVING ACCESS TO QUALITY HAIR CARE
    MY COIFFEUSE AFRO x PARITI

    Ma Coiffeuse Afro has given thousands of women in France access to hair care stylists who have expertise with textured hair through its online matching platform. As a freelancer for Pariti, a platform helping black founders raise money, I was tasked to create an investor deck for Ma Coiffeuse Afro to raise its series A round. I conducted market research in the black hair market and conducted interviews with their leadership in order to create a compelling investor deck. 




    As part of this project, it was clear that MCA needed its brand to be refreshed and reflect its target market – primarily women in the 25-40 years segment. It wasn’t in my scope to create a new brand identity but I was able to use their brand elements in new and refreshed ways.