Michele Y. Washington is a designer, researcher, black memory worker, podcaster, and writer. Michele is the host and founder of Curious Story Lab. She writes about architecture, design, food and pop culture. Her writings have been featured in The Black Experience in Design, Wonder City of the World: Travel Posters of New York City, InQue Magazine, Everlasting Plastics: Evoking Objects of Change, Feminists Media Histories: An International Journal, Architectural Record and America I Am Passin it Down Cookbook. She previously taught in the Graduate Exhibition and Experience Design Program at the Fashion Institute of Technology, CUNY, and Pratt Institute.

Michele serves on the BlackSpace Urbanists Collective board and the advisory boards for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Indigo Arts Alliance, and the Poster House Museum. In her free time, she loves making collages, knitting quirky objects, and screen printing.