When graphic designer Amanda Shepherd first learned about the shockingly high rates of prison recidivism (the number of people who will return to prison within a few years of being released), she asked herself – what she could do to make a difference.
In this confronting, compelling and surprisingly humorous talk Amanda shares the journey that led to establishing a working creative design studio inside a maximum security prison and the surprising impact it delivered. Amanda Shepherd is breaking through prison walls with graphic design, helping prisoners to make their time count.
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Amanda Shepherd is a co-founder and director of Green Fox Studio, Australia’s first full-service creative agency operating not-for-profit community- and prison-based graphic design training studios to provide marginalised people with skills training and employment opportunity in and beyond the creative arts.
Amanda is an experienced and well-respected designer with a passion for social justice operating an award-winning social enterprise that doesn’t just deliver good design—it’s positively impacting some of our society’s most disadvantaged communities, helping men, women, and children from all walks of life to pave a pathway out of poverty and towards more meaningful participation in safer, more inclusive communities across the country.
Amanda Shepherd
TEDx Speaker
Graphic Designer, Social Entrepreneur & Second Chance Innovator
