Desirée Gonzalez

Desirée Gonzalez, M.A., SEED AP, TiD-B has a Master's degree in Depth Psychology with a specialization in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecological Psychologies, and she is certified in Social, Economic, Environmental Design, Trauma-Informed Design, as well as Ecological Landscape Design. Desirée is currently a Bridge Fellow at the Centre for Conscious Design and a Design Fellow & Project Manager at Design Corps, where she leads the team on their Indigenous Public Interest Design Institute with Indigenous Architects, Designers, Urban Planners & Engineers from around the world, working to reclaim land & ownership over the built environment through centering Indigenous culture via design. She is also a Consultant for Hausense Design where she taught a Masterclass & Course on Restorative Design from a Social Equity & Systemic Trauma-Informed lens. This work dives deep into her Restorative Container Framework© that builds upon her Master's Research on exploring the idea of if it was possible to create restorative environments within conditions of imprisonment, which is currently in production to be published in Taylor & Francis' Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, Positive Psychology special edition. To learn more about Desirée's work, check out the episode of Design Deep Dive with Dr. Za on Spotify - Episode 1 of Season 2. She can also be contacted at desireenicolegonzalez@gmail.com.