Shannon Scrofano is a Los Angeles-based designer whose work includes interdisciplinary performance, public space, exhibition, curation and dialogue projects internationally and throughout the US.  She collaborates with communities, organizations and other artists to explore location-based design process, practice and conditions. Currently, she serves as the Director of Design for the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, developing strategies for artists and designers to collaborate cross-sector within communities and organizations to build civic health, equity and capacity.  She also serves as Co-Artistic Director of Nuestro Lugar: North Shore, the first major resident-designed, culture-driven, community development project in a rural community on the Salton Sea, in partnership with Kounkuey Design Initiative and Mutuo Architecture, and part of an upcoming exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.