Daphne Taranto



Program manager—AKA “the glue” between teams, clients, projects, and processes—with a global network in my back pocket.

In my work, I...
  1. Am currently PgM, Global Brand Marketing Data Science, at Uber
  2. Program managed a design team of 20 at a hypergrowth telehealth startup
  3. Project managed 2 Mumbai-based designers in creating viral illustrations for WhatsApp
  4. Conducted design research in India as a Fulbright Scholar
  5. Juried 39 critique panels at India’s premier design institute
  6. Co-founded the Dubai Art Book Fair
  7. Commissioned custom Arabic/English typographic illustrations for a wall mural
  8. Hired and managed designers for bespoke website development
  9. Co-founded a multi-format publication
Mark
Guest Speaker — Canada, India, USA, 2017–2020


Speaking to a full room at the Vancouver Art Book Fair. Photo via the fair’s organizers.

I was invited as guest speaker at:
  • MICA “Risograph Printing to Transgress” Graphic Design BFA/MFA course taught by professor Elaine Lopez, via Zoom, 2020
  • Fulbright Central and South Asia Conference, Kochi, Kerala, India, 2020
  • Farside Foundation, Leh, Ladakh, Kashmir, 2019
  • JJ School of Art, Mumbai, 2019
  • NID “Baatein” Guest Speaker Series, Ahmedabad, 2019
  • NID Exhibition Design Department, Ahmedabad, 2019
  • Chicago Art Book Fair 2018
  • Vancouver Art Book Fair 2017

Left: I designed the poster sharing my on-campus talk. Right: Notes by Graphic Design Masters student Amogh Bhatnagar during my Baatein (“Conversations”) session at NID.