Xinyi Li (she/her) is an educator and designer trespassing and dwelling on multiple thresholds. Her practice includes pedagogical expression, scholarship performance, diagrammatic media, and visual opacity. Her recent work concerns digital resistance and creative subversions, and language and pedagogy in transnational and transcultural contexts. 

She is an Associate Professor in the Undergraduate Communications Design Department at Pratt Institute. With the group post-radical pedagogy, she questions the values and legacies that shape design pedagogical practice.

Previously, she collaborated on Digital Humanities scholarly projects, explored issues of interdisciplinary collaborative research, and taught workshops providing design and thinking tools to facilitate meaningful visual production for humanistic knowledge at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. Through her practice, she has engaged in design research for healthcare experience and interaction design.