Born in Mexico City, Tania Jiménez is an independent designer and social entrepreneur based mainly in Montreal. She holds a B.A. in Graphic Design from the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico (1998), a M.A. in Research & Communications from Université du Québec à Montréal (2010) and a Social Innovation specialization from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2012).

For the last 20 years she has been shaping the aesthetics, content, and practical landscape of diverse projects, particularly in editorial design, branding and packaging.

Looking for ways to cross boundaries, Tania continuously questions her role as a designer in society and she decidedly works for engaging projects through which she can make a significant contribution to the community. Her main areas of interest are: people and cultures, gastronomy, story-telling, new media, visual arts, travel, anthropology and ethnography.

In 2012, Tania was the team lead of one the first seed of Polymath Ventures – a company builder designed for emerging economies. Her main responsibilities were to direct a multi-disciplinary team of business, design, and engineering professionals through hands-on research and design methods; run ethnographic interviews with users and experts and synthesize field data to identify deep needs and opportunities for better systems and experiences; conceptualize and road-test prototypes in a process of lean experimentation.

Tania is co-founder and previous art director of Caribou magazine.
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