Marysol Ortega Pallanez is a designer, educator, embroiderer, and a doctoral researcher in Transition Design at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also teaches at the graduate and undergraduate levels. In professional practice, Marysol has worked in the areas of service design and digital products in Mexico, the US, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, among others. Her areas of inquiry include pedagogical and care-based design practices; the politics of textile-making; the role of narrative and embodiment in addressing systemic challenges; and future-making through pluriversal design.

She is one of the creators and hosts of Design in Transition / Diseño en Transición, a bilingual podcast about designing for systems-level change toward sustainable and equitable futures.