Sylvia Harris is a communications strategist
who puts design and information to work for
the public sector. She was the lead design
strategist for the redesign of the 2000 National
Census forms and recently developed information master plans for New
York Presbyterian Hospital, New York's Lincoln Center, the American
Civil Liberties Union, and Columbia University.
Early in her career
Harris was a design critic at the Yale University School of Art, from
1990 through 2000. She received her M.F.A. from Yale in 1980 and a
B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1975. Currently a member
of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee,
Sylvia helps review the design of stamps created
by the U.S. Postal Service. She received a
Design Trust fellowship for
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