Zack Tucker (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Design in the Department of Art, College of Creative Arts at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Tucker utilizes design justice and action research methodologies to explore and interact with historic and entangled challenges associated with civic engagement in the United States. In particular, he has adopted a place-based creative and scholarly practice around Freedom Summer 1964 and its relevance to contemporary social justice and voter suppression issues. His work tends to be transdisciplinary, collaborative, participatory, and reflective. By conducting research through design, Tucker puts theory into practice by engaging in creative activities with communities to bring them toward collective liberation with the goal of achieving more equitable, cooperative, and reciprocal approaches.