Ralitsa Diana Debrah is a design educator and researcher at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, and at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa. She is a member of several design organizations including, the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Network (DESIS); e/Merge Africa, Network of Afrikan Designers (NAD), Pan Afrikan Design Institute (PADI), Ghana Institute of Graphic Artists (GhiGha); and Design Ghana. She also currently serves as the Afrikan Ambassador to the Open Design Afrika (ODA) organization.

Ralitsa’s research interests include Design for Sustainability and Social innovation; Educational Technology; Health Informatics; Afrikan Art, Culture and Design; and Design and Feminism. Her areas of expertise are in Service Design, Communication Design and Learning Experience Design within Trans-disciplinary settings. She has worked on several projects related to sustainability in both Afrikan and European settings.

She loves People, Design, Research and Technology. Ralitsa is currently a PhD Candidate at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Technology from the University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa. Ralitsa holds a Master’s Degree in Communication Design and a Bachelor of Fine Art in Graphic Design from Kwame Nkrumah, University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.

Design Educator and Researcher, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa