North Carolina A&T’s Arial Robinson Went From Creating A Fake Nike Campaign To Designing A Sneaker For The Company

“HBCU’s were created to provide a physical space for black students to fail and succeed,” she wrote in an Instagram caption. “In our own way, on our own terms. When we were turned away from everywhere else. The student center has been that physical space for me.”

She continued: “It is such an honor to have designed a Nike dunk low that represents the community, creativity & culture embedded into our walls & those infamous yellow stairs. Our experience can’t be emulated bc it is a physical one.”