Mina Farzad
Design Lead at Colorado Digital Service
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMina Farzad is a Design Lead with a decade of experience crafting human-centered public services and civic technology, currently reimagining Colorado’s social safety net at Colorado Digital Service. She blends ethnography, service design, permaculture, trauma studies, literacy science, and behavioral economics to turn messy social problems into actionable, community-centered digital services. Mina has led research-driven product work across federal and state programs—consolidating Vets.gov into VA.gov, architecting APIs for the VA, and designing DHS adjudication tools—while mentoring junior designers and training civil servants in multichannel delivery. Known as a connector, she brings engineers and stakeholders into the research process to democratize design decisions and build organizational capacity for care. Based in Denver, she pairs formal UX training with permaculture certification, reflecting an uncommon synthesis of systems thinking and regenerative practice.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Arabic Language Studies, Advanced Arabic Language Studies at Zarqa UniversityUser Experience Design, User Experience Design at General AssemblyCertification, Permaculture Design, Certification, Permaculture Design at Regenerative Education Collective of DenverBachelor’s Degree, International Security Studies & Public Administration, Bachelor’s Degree, International Security Studies & Public Administration at University of Oklahoma
English, Persian, arabic (modern standard)
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
minafarzad/togaether
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
minafarzad/freeyonce
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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