N Silas Munro is Design Director at Housing Works—the US's largest grassroots HIV/AIDS organization—where he oversees graphic design for audiences as divergent as homeless, marginalized New Yorkers and socially-conscious retail activists who support the organization's mission through innovative social enterprise. 

Silas is an adjunct teacher of typography in the graphic design department at MICA.

Silas was the 2008–2009 Designer-In-Residence (NC State) and 2003-2004 Design Fellow at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis). The Work of his firm FROM THE DESK OF: has been recognized by the AIGA, ADC Young Guns, AR100, ID, and Print. Silas' writing is published in GOOD, Novum,SpeakUp, and by the Walker Design Blog. Silas has lectured or taught graphic design at Art Center, CalArts, MICA, NC State, Otis, RISD, and Northern Virginia Community College. He holds a MFA in Graphic Design from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)..