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Academy 08
October 6, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom Webinar
Co-hosted with dsgnrswrkshp
Intellectual Property Seminar with LeAnn Shelton.
About the speaker:
LeAnn Shelton, AIA, Esq, is the Chief Legal Officer and Director of Business Affairs for Rockwell Group, a multi-disciplinary design firm with offices in New York City, Los Angeles California, and Madrid, Spain. A licensed architect and attorney with over thirty years experience practicing law and architecture, she advises the firm on a wide range of matters, including entertainment, intellectual property, construction, land use, and product development.
Ms. Shelton is actively involved in several public design and professional organizations. She is the Division Chair of the Arts and Museum Law Division of the ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, and served as the Architect Member of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York. Ms. Shelton has been a design juror and guest lecturer at several academic institutions, including Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Yale University, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute.
Prior to joining Rockwell Group in 2008, Ms. Shelton was an Associate Partner at Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn/Perkins Eastman and Davis Brody Bond, where she led large-scale master planning and cultural development projects. Ms. Shelton is a graduate of Amherst College, Columbia University School of Law and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Design.
About dsgnrswrkshp:
A community led organization committed to the collective advancement of Black makers, their voices, journeys, and healing within creative space – by and through design, education, and culture. Dsgnrswrksp’s work bridges the gap between the maker community and their neighboring creative kin, nourishing creative thinking via workshops, seminars, productions, field trips, and events focused on connection, protection, and celebration. This organization believes that design is a human centered exchange, aligning with a mission of cooperative economics. They do this by disrupting the siloed nature of design across disciplines and communities while blurring the lines between art, lifestyle, and technology; creating the future of design as we see it.
This is a public event. WantedDesign and dsgnrswrkshp members will have priority access to this event and will be allowed to ask live questions to the speaker.
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