When you grow up in a haunted house, you tend to develop a fascination for ghost stories.
These ghost stories, when repeated, begin to take on a life of their own.
Eventually, it doesn’t matter if the ghost was ever truly real.
Benji Sheppard is an American designer and storyteller using fiction and metaphor as tool for larger conversations around sensitive topics. Coming from a background in the Deep South of the United States, he works to both educate on and critically engage with conservative Christianity, the rise of the far-right, and the complexities of human relationships through research, storytelling, and dialogue. Benji is a 2026 Design Academy Eindhoven Graduate.
