Fellows

Isaac Vialpando

Isaac is a designer and social entrepreneur from Ogden, Utah, who studied Design Thinking at two of the leading creative schools in the U.S. Isaac holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication from Weber State University. In 2014, Isaac participated in the Impact! Design for Social Change seminar at the School of Visual Arts, where he developed a project called O-Town Kitchen, a social enterprise that turned gleaned produce into value-added products and created jobs for families recovering from homelessness. O-Town Kitchen became Weber County's first benefit corporation, operating from 2015 to 2020. In 2021, Isaac earned an MA in Design Thinking for the Social Sector (Social Design) from MICA in Baltimore, MD. He now serves as a community development designer for the Ogden Civic Action Network and as the Weber County programs manager for Waste Less Solutions, a food waste organization.

Kellie Bornhoft

Kellie Bornhoft (she/her) creates tangible and poetic narratives needed in an ever-warming climate. Bornhoft utilizes sculpture, installation, and video to delve into the whelms and quotidian experiences of our precarious times. Scientific data and news headlines do plenty to evince the state of our warming planet, but the abject realities of such facts are hard to possess. Through geological and more-than-human lenses, Bornhoft sifts through shallow dichotomies (such as natural/unnatural, here/there, or animate/inanimate.) Bornhoft lives in Ogden, Utah, where she is an assistant professor/coordinator of foundations at Weber State University. She holds a MFA in Sculpture + Expanded Media from Ohio State University and a BFA from Watkins College of Art and Design. Bornhoft’s work has exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals such as the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina, Kulturanker in Magdeburg, Germany, and the Athens International Film and Video Festival. Bornhoft’s work has been reviewed in many publications including Frieze Magazine, Burnaway, INDYweek, and ArtsATL.

Jessica Greenberg

Jessica Greenberg is a professor of theatre, specializing in lighting, sound, and projection design. Locally she frequently works with Salt Lake Acting Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Ririe-Woodbury Dance. Her national credits include productions with La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, Adjusted Realists, A.R.T. New York, and 59E59. Conference presentations and public talks include World Stage Design, USITT, Prague Quadrennial, CrisisART, and TEDx. She holds degrees from Hampshire College and UMass Amherst, and she is also a member of USA 829.

Thi Nguyen

Thi’s creative practice aligns at the intersection of visual design, teaching, and design research. She is an alumnus of the MFA Communication Design program, Texas State University, and Design for America (DFA), where she learned to use design thinking to address wicked problems, localize challenges, and create the smallest changes for the biggest impact.

She executes design principles and materials to tell stories on physical and digital platforms. Her works adopt a multidisciplinary community-centered design approach to empower people in different sectors such as education, mental health, environment, economics, and civics. Thi believes that design shall give people ownerships to take the lead and build their future communities.

Carey Campbell

Carey Campbell is an electroacoustic music performer, composer, and improviser. Carey’s works and improvisations have been heard at the Australasian Computer Music Festival, the Vu Symposium, the Osaka Audio Rocket Festival, SEAMUS, and the New Music Gathering. Carey has composed music for theatre and dance productions at Weber State University, where he is a professor of music, and frequently collaborates with visual and multimedia artists. He is originally from Virginia and received a PhD in Musicology from the University of Minnesota. Find out more at