Social Responsibility
Misha Zadeh Illustration & Design is Iranian-American woman-owned. We stand for universal human rights, including LGBTQIA+ rights, and we believe that Black Lives Matter.
In 2020-2022, we gave financial and in-kind donations to these groups. Please consider learning about them and including them in your annual giving:
We support Seattle-area Black-owned Businesses and recommend that you do, too. Don’t know where to start? Here is a good list.
Discover and support fellow BIPOC Makers. Here are a few of our friends and favorites:
- Jeanetta Gonzalez (visual artist, designer, educator)
- Jennifer Fujimoto (ceramicist, visual artist, designer)
- Jen Hewett (author, educator, printmaker, surface designer, artist)
- Gia Graham (lettering & visual designer, educator)
- Maggie Ramirez Burns (visual artist & footwear designer)
- Meenal Patel (author, visual artist, designer, illustrator)
- Meera Lee Patel (author, visual artist & designer)
- Stacy Hsu (visual artist, designer, illustrator)
- Yuko Miki / Honeyberry Studios (visual artist, illustrator)
Specifically Iranian-diaspora Creatives. Many whom we've met through our work with the IACA Seattle Iranian Festival.
- Azin Mafi (ceramicist, artist, poet)
- Anita Amirrezvani (author, educator)
- Fariba Nafissi / Zozo Baking (pastry chef)
- Hamid Rahmanian (author, visual artist, filmmaker)
- Jasmin Darznik (author educator)
- Leyla Shams / Chai & Conversation (Persian language educator, podcaster)
- Louisa Shafia (chef, author, recipe developer)
- Marjan Kamali (author)
- Maz Jobrani (comedian)
- Naz Deravian / Bottom of The Pot (chef, author, recipe developer, actress)
- Neely Daggett (illustrator)
- Olivia Abtahi (author, filmmaker, educator)
- Omid Roustaei / The Caspian Chef (chef, recipe developer)
- Parisa Parnian / Savage Muse / Savage Taste (chef, visual artist & designer)
- Persis Karim (author, educator)
- Porochista Khakpour (author, educator)
- Saba Parsa / Saba Moraba (jam maker, artist)