Speaking

• • • Primer21 2021, “Playing with our Futures: Enabling Play as an Essential Design Tool for Envisioning Solutions to Serious Problems”
    • Design for Healthcare 2020, “Design Strategy: Figuring Out What the Heck to Design”
    • World Interaction Design Day 2019, “Ethics in Design: Breaking Down Barriers to Conversation Through Play”
    • Better World By Design 2018, “Designing for [Health] Equity”
  • • Healthcare Refactored Conference 2017, “Root Causes: Overcoming Barriers to Health Equity” (keynote)
  • • Better World by Design 2016, “Compassion & Inclusion: Participatory Design in Health” (keynote)
  • • Mayo Clinic Transform 2015, “The Designer’s Oath”
    • American Association for the Advancement of Science: Visualizing Science Policy 2013,  “Art + Science”

Publications

• • • Bloomsbury Academic’s “Ethics In Design” 2019, “Designing Ethics Tools for Self-Reflection, Collaboration, and Facilitation” (book chapter)
  • • Smashing Magazine 2017, “Designing Ethics: Shifting Ethical Understanding in Design”
  • • Scientific American 2015, “How Design Can Improve Health Care for Everyone”
  • • Touchpoint Magazine 2015, “A Designer’s Oath: Collaboratively Defining a Code of Ethics for Design”
  • • ARCADE Magazine 2013, “Radical Collaborations”
    • Metropolis Magazine 2012, “An Illustrator at the Mayo Clinic”

Press

• • • Designing Health 2016, “Let’s Talk Health Care Design: Samantha Dempsey”
  • • Quartz Magazine 2015, “Sick of Selling Junkfood and False Promises, Designers Declare their own ‘Hippocratic Oath’“
  • • Angelus News 2014, “Empathy Boxes To Raise Awareness of Autism” March
  • • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAS.org) 2013 “Artists and Scientists Observe, Ask Questions, Even Propose Solutions”
    • Smithsonian Magazine 2013,  “These Tattoos Honor Lost, Not So Loved Species”