User:JKizzieHumanities/Eliza Squibb

Eliza Squibb is an acclaimed textile designer, community health advocate and educator. Squibb graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. Following her graduation, she taught design workshops in the Peruvian Amazon, and worked with Dr. Anne S. DeGroot of the GAIA Vaccine Foundation to create a storytelling cloth to educate women in Mali about the connection between HPV and cervical cancer; the project was supported by a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Squibb later serves as Executive Director of the organization, and has continued to her work creating textiles for health advocacy, including designing a textile to inform women in Guinea about childbirth safety. She is also a college professor and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, MIT, and the University of Rhode Island.

In 2016, Squibb was inducted into the Rhode Island Design Hall of Fame.