Design mediates so much of our realities and has tremendous impact on our lives, yet very few of us participate in design processes. In particular, the people who are most adversely affected by design decisions—about visual culture, new technologies, the planning of our communities, or the structure of our political and economic systems—tend to have the least influence on those decisions and how they are made."13
This idea of one group of people being impacted by a certain issue, but having very little control over what’s being done to combat these problems reminds me of the Combahee River Collective Statement. The statement emphasizes how black women should be at the forefront of black feminist movements because they are the closest to their own experiences. In the same way, it would make sense for people who are most affected by design decisions should be those who are making the design decisions because they azure closest to their own marginalized experiences and know their needs best.