2010-2011 Chapter Volunteers

Noa Dvoskin, IDSA volunteer

Hi, my name is Noa; I am an industrial and interactive designer from Israel. I discovered my passion first as a Ceramic and Glass Designer, and did an internship in glass blowing in a glass factory in the Czech-Republic. Later on I pursued a Masters degree in industrial design. During my studies, a product I designed was chosen to represent my school at the Microsoft research expo, and I flew all the way to Seattle to attend the conference. I worked in the High-Tech Industry in Israel as a UX designer and I currently work at Microsoft as a product designer.

Michelle Steed, IDSA volunteer

Michelle Steed, a recent re-plant to Seattle (hometown) from San Francisco, CA (10 yrs). While in SF I attended San Francisco State University to acquire an MA in Industrial Arts/ Product design, volunteered within IDSA-SFSU student organization as Vice president and Secretary, and Co-created/ coordinated ‘Industrial Design Outreach’ (IDO) an organization that promotes Industrial Design to k-12 grade for 3 years.

Jacob Fleisher, Uber-volunteer

I am the Design Research Manager at Pacific Market International in Seattle.

Bernadette Havok, Student Liaison

Bernadette is a graduate of the UW ID program, and has a special interest in Sustainable Design. She focuses on aviation design at Teague. For fun she loves dancing, cooking, traveling, and photography. She hopes that her design work will allow her to experience many different cultures, customs, and beautiful cities around the world.

Jennifer Margell, Student Liaison

Jennifer Margell is an Industrial Designer for Lotus Fixtures where she designs primarily fixtures and environments for action sports companies, as well as furniture design. She also enjoys photography, cooking and encaustic painting.

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Alex Diener, Northwest Design Invitational Director

Alex is a rain-fueled Seattle native who loves filling his sketchbooks with life’s travels. His best ideas come when sitting in a plane, train, or taxi- when there’s nothing left but paper and pen. When not cooking up products with the Pensar team, you’ll find him at the sushi bar at Tsukushinbo.

Derek Silverio, Social Media Master

Industrial Designer, BDA Inc.

Greg Janky, Seattle Design Week Liaison

Designer, Anvil Studios

Lindsey Berdan, Immediate Past Chair

Lindsey used to be an industrial designer, is currently an interaction designer, and tomorrow may claim to be a user experience designer. She enjoys swimming, skiing, yoga, other people’s dogs and visiting friends in places like Wenatchee, Portland, London, Stuttgart, Dubai and Bangkok.