Precious Bugarin is a creative director and educator. For over 25 years she’s used design as a language for equity to connect nonprofits to supporters, students to design aspirations, entrepreneurs to audiences and diverse voices through events. Her experience as a first-generation Filipino American, small business owner, teacher and mother have highly informed her work. She’s collaborated with numerous organizations and businesses including Arts for Learning, the City of Portland, Instrument, Nike, Ok You and PBOT, among others. She’s currently Mercy Corps’s art director — where she helps guide the organization’s visual brand. In addition, she’s senior faculty at Portland State in the School of Art + Design and on the board of Write Around Portland. Her unique journey has shaped her body of work and the value she places on working with clients, teaching students and connecting people through design.