The participant served as a Mentor for the Fall 2023 DxD Intensives program, a collaboration between Delta Dental of California, the nation’s leading provider of dental insurance, and Lehman College, the City University of New York's only four-year college in the Bronx, serving the borough and surrounding region as an intellectual, economic, and cultural center.

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Mentors spent the semester providing valuable guidance, feedback and collaboration to student participants. Serving as a professional touchpoint, Mentors nurtured student teams as they addressed key design challenges in project research, product capabilities, and user experience & accessibility. 

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Coursework in Fall 2023 centered around the challenge: How might we redesign the Delta Dental Provider Search experience so that patients can find the Dentist that is right for their needs? — to provide student participants with industry experience, touchpoints to a professional network, and a highly relevant project for their continued design career. 

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DxD Intensives – which develops and supports collaborations between industry partners and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) of higher education – is a program of the Diversify by Design (DxD) coalition.