Audrey G. Bennett is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centers on design studies for social justice at the intersection of theoretical research and the critical and creative practices of thinking, making, and writing. She is the director of Baohouse, a virtual design studio she founded circa 2005 as an immaterial and motile research space for collaboration between experts from professional and lay communities. She is an inaugural University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan (2019), an Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Scholar of the University of Pretoria, South Africa (2015), and a College Art Association Professional Development Fellow (1996). She was awarded the AIGA Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary in 2022, one of the highest honors in the discipline of graphic design. She has an M.F.

A. in graphic design from the Yale School of Art.