AWho should design the technologies that impact our communities? In this talk, I answer this question by exploring  the concept of design through the lens of human-centered design, a framework with a long history of shifting design away from techno-centric priorities and towards the collective needs of a community. Focusing on the design of AI systems, I argue that such collective and coalitional design frameworks invite and perhaps necessitate the expansion of traditional technology design to include rhetoric as an embodied, networked element of technology design. Drawing from critical theorists and methodologists, I frame participatory design as a particularly effective approach that offers rhetorical, material, and procedural strategies for building socio-technical systems. I specifically illustrate the value of participatory design methodologies as I have applied them to the design of AI Education, among other socio-technical systems that shape our global and local communities. I forward an argument for AI education and application design that offer knowledge-making pathways that reflect human values and embrace the need for epistemic resistance.