Love Beyond Walls
Building empathy and creating access through design, stories, and community engagements.
Love Beyond Walls is an Atlanta-based nonprofit working to restore dignity to people experiencing homelessness through storytelling, community, and direct service.
As a freelance designer, I partnered with Love Beyond Walls to bring two initiatives to life — a public exhibit on the lived experience of homelessness, and a fundraising campaign that placed handwashing stations across the US and internationally.
Experience the forgotten exhibit
What does it mean to experience homelessness?
Depending on your experience and knowledge, the answer will differ. Sometimes, our misconceptions and biases keep us from connecting and supporting people who are living on the margins. To break down some of their barriers, we created Experience the Forgotten – a free and public outdoor exhibit educating people on what it means to experience homelessness. The exhibit built on our shared humanity by highlighting stories from people with lived experiences. The exhibit invited the community to join in a dialogue on homelessness and explore ways to support the needs of some of America’s “forgotten” population.
The exhibit was featured outside The Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, GA in 2019.
Love Sinks in: Covid support
At the start of the pandemic, there was an entire community of people experiencing homelessness who weren’t able to properly sanitize or wash their hands. For the more than half a million people without stable housing, even basic hygiene was out of reach.
For Love Beyond Walls, a nonprofit in Atlanta supporting people experiencing homelessness, bridging this gap became a primary focus.
As a freelance designer, I collaborated with the founder to develop the initiative Love Sinks In.
Together, we created a campaign that helped Love Beyond Walls build partnerships and raise the funds needed to place hand-washing stations both nationally and internationally.
