Junia Lapp Mentor
- Creative Designer, GM User Experience
- GM
- USA

Junia is a creative designer working in the Advanced User Experience Studio at General Motors Design. She was intrigued with cars as a teenager and had a dream to be involved in the automotive industry. Junia graduated from Escola de Design (UEMG) in Brazil with a degree in Industrial Design.
She started her career at General Motors as an interior designer for Chevrolet, working on emerging market products, such as; the Chevrolet ONIX interior and accessory strategy.
Fascinated by human interactions with technology, she believes we are closely connected to the living and energy space around us. Therefore, she enjoys researching and designing products integrating automotive technology with the natural elements of human mobility and behavior. As a designer, she believes we need to understand the intimate relationship between a user’s desires and a vehicle’s design.