Talks and Workshops
Featured Speaker – AIGA Design Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2025
“Breaking Barriers: Using Design to Advocate, Organize, and Build Social Movements”
Featured Speaker & Workshop Facilitator – Netroots Nation, Baltimore, MD, 2024
“Beyond the Ballot: Designing Democracy to Mobilize the Next Generation”
Featured Speaker – LULAC National Convention and Exposition, Albuquerque, NM, 2023
“Saber es Poder”
Guest Speaker – Speaking Out Sanely (SOS), Indivisible NM, Santa Fe, NM, 2023
Moderator – Austin Design Week, Austin, TX, 2020
“Embrace Your Colors: Code-Switching While Working Remote During a Pandemic”
Featured Speaker & Workshop Facilitator – Alto Poli-migra Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2020
Hosted by Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center, NDLON, RAICES
Featured Speaker & Workshop Facilitator – Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, 2020
“Fences, Families and Futures”
Panelist – AIGA UNIDOS Hispanic Heritage Talks, Remote, 2020
Moderator – Austin Design Week, Austin, TX, 2019
“Making Room in Colorless Spaces”
Featured Speaker – Grow: The AIGA Austin Conference for Emerging Designers, Austin, TX, 2019
“To Hell With Good Intentions”
Panelist – Austin Design Week, Austin, TX, 2018
“A Denim Exhibit: Connotations of Texican Culture”
Panelist – Future Front Texas (formerly Boss Babes ATX), Austin, TX, 2018
“Making Goods for the Revolution”
Panelist – SXSW Casa Mexico, Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC), Austin, TX, 2018
Panelist – Jolt Initiative, University of Texas at Austin, TX, 2018
(Artist in Residence Panel)
Featured Speaker – TEDx San Marcos: reXamine, San Marcos, TX, 2018
“Creative Resistance: Amplifying Voices to Inspire Social Change through Art”
Featured Speaker & Workshop Facilitator – Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX, 2018
“Creative Acts of Resistance”
Yocelyn Riojas
Yocelyn Riojas is a Mexican-American Creative Strategist, Activist Artist, and cultural organizer from the U.S.–Mexico border. She uses design, storytelling, and art as tools for social change, bridging advocacy and creativity to amplify movements for racial justice, immigrant rights, reproductive freedom, and democracy.
Yocelyn Riojas
