Timothy Bardlavens

Sr. Manager, Product Design – Central Integrity | Meta

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Timothy (he/him) is chaotic good in its purest form. He is a Gay, Black man from the Carolinas, the youngest son of a single mother and everything institutional trauma and oppression says you cannot be or become. 

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He is a Design Leader, a Cultural Strategist, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) specialist, a Co-Founder, a writer and an international speaker and facilitator on topics of design & tech culture, equity, white supremacy and systems of oppression. 

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Over the past decade, Timothy has also built and scaled teams, set product vision and strategy for Zillow, Microsoft, Capital One and others. 

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He is currently a Sr. Manager of Product Design at Meta, where he leads the Central Integrity organization on a mission to create scalable solutions to reduce harm, abuse, and misinformation, while also increasing peoples’ voice and equitable outcomes across the family of apps (i.e. Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp & Metaverse) for 3.7 billion people around the world. 

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Alongside Antionette Carroll, Timothy co-founded &Design—an organization whose mission is to cultivate and activate Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Designers by providing tools, resources and training to support them on their creative career journey. 

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As a cultural strategist, Timothy works with leaders to develop people-centric strategies with clear, actionable steps to increase diversity, create more inclusive spaces, and design more equitable systems.

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