Kelly Small is an award-winning creative director, designer, educator, and author.

Founder of creative agency Intents & Purposes, professor of design ethics with the School of Design at George Brown, and affiliated design researcher with Emily Carr University, Kelly Small MDes, RGD holds an interdisciplinary master’s in design and received the Governor General’s Gold Medal for their research into design for social impact, social innovation, and sustainability and the ethics of commercial creative practice. Currently authoring a book about practical ethics for a youth audience and serving on the board of directors for The ArQuives, Kelly lives in Toronto with their wife, Dahlia, bonus kid, Evan, and dog, Richie.