Malika Leiper is a partner at industrial design studio Stephen Burks Man Made, where she works to unite art, community, and industry through a hands-on, workshop-based approach. Originally from Cambodia, Leiper is interested in the culture of design across various disciplines with a particular focus on emergent contexts in Southeast Asia. After completing her master’s in urban planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she consulted with non-profits, local governments, and museums on strategies to build creative cultural capacity, often through public programming and community engagement. She approaches design as a collaborative process of translating knowledge and insights from different worlds into one common language through technical, moral and utopian applications. Most recently, Leiper has contributed to Disegno Journal #34 as a Het Nieuwe Instituut inaugural emerging writing fellow with her first published short story, When The Words Don't Exist.