SPEAKERS
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MARIANA AMATULLO, PhD
Vice President and Co-Founder Designmatters, ArtCenter College of Design A practitioner-scholar, educator, and author, Dr. Mariana Amatullo has overseen the award-winning portfolio of Designmatters collaborations in art and design education and social innovation at ArtCenter in Pasadena since establishing the groundbreaking program in 2001. Recipient of the inaugural Dell Social Innovation Education Award, Amatullo was named in Fast Company’s “50 Designers Shaping the Future” and the “Public Interest Design 100.” Through her leadership, ArtCenter is the first design institution to be affiliated as a non-governmental organization (NGO) with the United Nations and formally accredited with organizations such as the Organization of American States, the Pan American Health Organization and the United Nations Population Fund. Amatullo serves on a variety of advisory and executive boards of organizations engaged in the arts, design education and social innovation and lectures internationally about design and social innovation. She was the lead curator and host of the first LEAP symposium convened at ArtCenter in 2013 and is the lead editor of the forthcoming book LEAP Dialogues: Careers in Design for Social Innovation, Designmatters at ArtCenter, 2016. Amatullo holds an M.A. in art history and museum studies from University of Southern California and a Licence en Lettres Degree from the Paris-Sorbonne University. She attained a Ph.D. in management from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, where she’s a scholar-in-residence and a design and innovation fellow. A native of Argentina, Amatullo was brought up through the diplomatic corps and grew up around the world. |
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GEORGE AYE
Co-Founder & Principal, Greater Good Studio George is deeply committed to using human-centered design to help the lives of people in need. He is a Co-Founder and Principal at Greater Good Studio. Previously, he spent 7 years at global innovation firm IDEO before being hired as the first human-centered designer at the Chicago Transit Authority. Since founding the studio, he has worked across multiple social issues from autism, criminal justice, education, public health, and healthcare. With his cofounder, Sara Cantor Aye, was awarded the TED Prize in 2012, listed among the world’s leading social innovators in the Public Interest Design 100 list. The studio’s work has been included in the Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook in 2015. George is an Adjunct Full Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches social innovation. He is a frequent speaker and workshop facilitator. George received his bachelors in Engineering from Bournemouth University, UK. |
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SARA CANTOR AYE
Co-Founder & Principal, Greater Good Studio Greater Good Studio is a human-centered design firm focused on social impact. Sara co-founded Greater Good Studio in 2011 to bring the design process to overlooked problems and underserved people. She leads the research practice at GGS, creating learning experiences that engage clients and communities. Sara was previously Research Director at innovation firm IA Collaborative, where she designed solutions to a wide range of strategic challenges. Sara speaks regularly on designing for social impact, and guest lectures at the Kellogg School of Management. Sara holds a Masters in Design Planning from IIT Institute of Design, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern. She believes that by making research tangible, visual and memorable, we can generate the empathy needed to create more and better life. |
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GABY BRINK
Founder & Chief Designer Tomorrow Partners Gaby Brink is the founder and chief designer of Tomorrow Partners, a Berkeley, California based design and innovation firm, where she works with blue chips, start-ups, government and social entrepreneurs to realize new opportunities for impact—be it business, social or both. A past member of the Board of Directors of AIGA, the largest and oldest professional design organization, she fosters dialogue and action around the industry’s role in design-driven social change. Gaby frequently speaks on systems thinking, human centered design and innovation in government, and produces best practices, conferences and convenings around these same topics. |
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SARAH BROOKS
Lead, Insight & Design, VA Customer Experience Office US Department of Veterans Affairs Service designer, researcher, strategist and advocate for social change, Sarah Brooks’ work includes practice, teaching, writing and large-scale systems thinking about interventions for a better world. For the past 15 years, she has led multi-disciplinary teams creating products and services ranging from food systems, healthcare, media, education, finance, civic innovation and worked with a broad range of Fortune 500, startup, non-profit and foundation clients. Sarah has taught at Stanford University d.school’s Change Labs, California College of the Arts, and Centro Diseño. In her role as AIGA SF Sustainability Board Chair, Sarah produced the Compost Modern13 Resilience conference that brought together over 500 attendees and 24 international sustainability design leaders. Sarah served as a 2014-2015 Presidential Innovation Fellow at Veterans Affairs, and currently leads the Insight & Design team within the VA Customer (Veterans) Experience Office. She is the author of the chapter Shifting Systems, in the book Strategic Design Thinking: Innovation in Products, Services, Experiences and Beyond, published by Bloomsbury, 2015. |
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JUSTIN W. COOK
Senior Lead for Sustainable Development, Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra Justin W. Cook is the Senior Lead for Sustainable Development at the Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra. His current work in the organization's Strategy Unit Research Team includes research and projects in support of Sitra’s sustainable wellbeing societal transformation activities. He is also leading new initiatives on the future of education in Finland and the US and advised project teams working on impact investing, catalyzing the third sector in Finland, internationalization and developing solutions to trends that are challenging Western governments. Previously he was Helsinki Design Lab’s resident expert on climate and energy issues and worked to bring strategic design practice into government and other owners of complex challenges. He also helped to develop and manage Sitra’s Low2No sustainable urban development project that created Helsinki's first carbon neutral city block. Based in Boston, Justin is a faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design. He advises research teams at MIT and Harvard on how to use design as a transformative capacity. Currently at MIT, he is a strategic advisor to MIT Collaborative Initiatives, which has launched a new project with John Hopkins University Systems Institute aiming at transforming the Clinical Trials system. This project builds on previous large scale systemic design projects addressing post traumatic stress in the active military, childhood obesity and ischemic stroke. Most recently, Justin was an instructor/curriculum developer for the inaugural Institute for Design and Public Policy; a collaboration between RISD and the United States Department of State. He is a strategic design facilitator at MIT's annual Albright Challenge which brings together rising leaders to tackle society's most challenging problems such as aging, healthcare and education. Justin received a Master of Architecture with commendation from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington. @justinwcook. |
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LIZ DANZICO
Creative Director, NPR; Founding Chairperson, MFA Interaction Design, School of Visual Arts Liz Danzico is creative director for NPR, whose mission is to work in partnership with member stations to create a more informed public. She is founding chairperson of the MFA Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts, one of the world’s top design schools. She is advisor to startups, nonprofits, global companies, and lectures widely. She has written for design-minded publications, including Eye Magazine, Interactions Magazine, Business Week, and on her own site, bobulate.com. She sees a lot of parallels between raising her dog and the practice of design. |
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CHRISTINE GASPAR
Executive Director Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) Christine Gaspar is Executive Director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), where she partners with designers and community organizations to create visually-based educational tools that help demystify complex issues from zoning law to sewage infrastructure. Christine has over fifteen years of experience in community design. Prior to joining CUP, she was Assistant Director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio in Biloxi, Mississippi, where she provided architectural design and city planning services to low-income communities recovering from Hurricane Katrina. She holds Masters in Architecture and in City Planning from MIT, and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. She teaches in the Design & Urban Ecologies program at Parsons The New School for Design and the Programs For Sustainable Planning and Development at Pratt Institute. In 2012, she was identified as one of the “Public Interest Design 100.” |
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KIPPY JOSEPH
Associate Director, Innovation The Rockefeller Foundation Kippy Joseph joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2010. As Associate Director, Innovation, she designs, implements and manages an integrated approach of grant-making and internal capability-building. The focus on innovation recognizes the Foundation’s legacy and highlights the necessity to generate transformative solutions to intractable problems. In the past, the Foundation's strategy centered on creating enabling environments for innovation in development contexts, including support for methods and infrastructure for social innovation. After efforts to test innovation methods yielded concerns about the sector’s capacity to adopt them, the portfolio expanded to our current efforts to build innovation capacity. The current funding strategy incentivizes cultures of experimentation and builds networks that make it easier for leaders to catalyze, recognize or collaborate on higher risk opportunities that hold the possibility for greater or accelerated impact. Prior to her current position, Ms. Joseph worked at the United Kingdom’s Young Foundation, which focuses broadly on social innovation by conducting research, consultancy and incubation. At the Young Foundation, she led the education portfolio, capitalizing an education innovation fund and developing a new network of small innovative schools across the U.K. Having started her career in the U.S., she has also directed several New York City youth programs in partnership with under-served local communities and public schools. Ms. Joseph is a trained facilitator of large and small groups, and has consulted for NGOs and foundations on strategy and program development. Ms. Joseph holds Masters Degrees in Social and Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and in Systemic Management and Consultation from the University of London. She earned her B.A. in Public Policy and Education at Brown University. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, N.Y. |
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JENNIFER MAY
Director, Designmatters Department ArtCenter College of Design Jennifer May is the Director of Designmatters, ArtCenter College of Design's social impact department, where she oversees the management of Designmatters' portfolio of projects and the program's operations. Jennifer works with ArtCenter's students and faculty and Designmatters' collaborators in the nonprofit, government, global development, academic and business sectors to execute curricular projects that yield real-world outcomes. Jennifer first joined Designmatters as the Manager of the LEAP Symposium, a gathering of 150 thought-leaders to discuss career pathways in the emergent field of design for social innovation. She is now the Managing Editor of the LEAP Dialogues, a publication follow-up to the LEAP Symposium, which will be published in 2016. Jennifer earned her M.B.A. from USC Marshall School of Business, where she was a Brittingtham Social Enterprise Lab Fellow, a Forté Fellow, and an Education Pioneers Fellow. Prior to returning to school, Jennifer was the Manager of Special Events for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where she served in the dual roles of fundraiser and logistics manager for events such as the Gustavo Dudamel Inaugural Gala and Opening Night at the Hollywood Bowl. |
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LIZ OGBU
Founder & Principal Studio O A designer, urbanist, and social innovator, Liz is an expert on social and spatial innovation in challenged urban environments globally. From designing shelters for immigrant day laborers in the U.S. to a water and health social enterprise for low-income Kenyans, Liz has a long history of working with communities in need to leverage the power of design to deliver social impact. She is founder and principal of Studio O, a multidisciplinary design and innovation firm, as well as adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley and Stanford’s d.school. She is also the inaugural Expert-in-Residence at Tulane University's Taylor Center for Design Thinking and Social Innovation. Previous roles include first-ever Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Art & Public Life at California College of the Arts, Innovator-in-Residence through the inaugural IDEO.org Fellowship, and Design Director at the nonprofit Public Architecture. Liz's projects have been featured in museum exhibitions and received numerous design awards globally. She has also written for and been profiled in publications such as the Boston Globe, Metropolis, Core 77, and the Journal of Urban Design. Her honors include Aspen Ideas Scholar, Next City Vanguard, Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, and one of Public Interest Design’s Top 100. She earned architecture degrees from Wellesley College and Harvard University. |
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SEEMA PATEL
Division Chief, Innovation Design and Advisory Global Development Lab, USAID Seema Patel, a native of Washington D.C., is a passionate advocate for social change, committed to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs with innovative, sustainable, scalable solutions to poverty and indignity. She is the Division Chief for Collective Acceleration at the Global Development Lab at the U.S. Agency for International Development. She leads a team that invests in open innovation and systems innovation approaches to foster collaboration across global innovation networks and accelerate the adoption of solutions to complex development challenges. Previously, she worked at DAI as an advisor to donors, for-profit and non-profit clients on innovation challenge programs, commercialization and acceleration strategies for social impact entrepreneurs, public-private partnerships, and private sector development. She spent two years as policy analyst on post-conflict development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, advising international civilian and military agencies on Afghanistan reconstruction policy. Seema started her career as an investment banker working on emerging market deals for Citigroup in London and venture financing for the infotech and biotech start-up sector at a small boutique firm in San Francisco. She holds a Masters of Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University. Seema enjoys outdoor adventures like kayaking, skiing and surfing and can be found most weekends in Rock Creek Park getting outflanked by her herding dog or putting the latest restaurant reviews to the test. |
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ANDREW SHEA
Principal, MANY Andrew Shea is the principal at MANY, a graphic design studio based in New York City. His work has been featured by publications like Fast Company, Slate, Print, How, 99 Percent Invisible, and Communication Arts. He wrote Designing for Social Change, and his design writing has also appeared in publications like Design Observer, Core77, AIGA, Entrepreneur Magazine, GOOD, and Impact Design Hub. He teaches classes on various topics at Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute’s Graduate Communication Design, and at City University of New York, including design for behavior change, creative placemaking, and visualizing urban policy. Andrew has spoken about design at schools, conferences, and at TEDx Transmedia in Rome. He serves as an advisor for organizations that include Impact Design Hub, Design Incubation, Human Impact Institute, and has served on juries for organizations like Design Ignites Change, Archinect, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy. |
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RAFAEL SERGIO SMITH
Senior Designer IDEO.org Rafael focuses on product and systems design for winning ideas from IDEO.org’s Amplify program, a five-year program funded by the UK Department for International Development to make international aid more collaborative and human-centered. A designer and social entrepreneur with experience tackling challenges from emergency shelters in disaster zones to agricultural systems in rural India and Africa, his work ranges from physical products to software applications or systems. Prior to joining IDEO.org, Rafa was lead designer at Solar Mosaic, an online investment platform for clean energy, helping the company enter the market and grow from zero to ten thousand users. As an industrial design consultant, he has created products for manufacturers like Bosch, SunBeam and Pyrex, and founded Uber Shelter, a company designing emergency shelters for disaster relief in Haiti, Venezuela, and Japan. In his spare time, Rafa is a mentor for the Unreasonable Institute, advising entrepreneurs on how to apply rapid prototyping and design thinking to their businesses. But the key to Rafa’s heart is through an invitation to yoga, burritos, or conversations about evolution. Rafa received his Bachelor’s in Industrial Design from Purdue University. |
PARTICIPANTS
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Amanda Allen
Design Lead emocha Mobile Health Mariana Amatullo Vice President & Co-Founder ArtCenter College of Design Elaine Asal Design Strategist Gensler Sara Aye Co-Founder and Principal Greater Good Studio George Aye Co-founder and Principal Greater Good Studio Mira Azarm Founder + Designer GoodJinn Kehinde Bademosi Social Innovation Manager Johns Hopkins/Baltimore City Health Department Daniel Barcza Vice-Rector, Associate Professor Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Joan Barlow Creative Services Officer Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Matthew Barr Program Manager, Executive in Residence Ashoka Wendy Bolger Director, Program Innovation Strategy Share Our Strength Brit Boroian Social Innovation Strategist Gaby Brink Founder & Chief Designer Tomorrow Partners Sarah Brooks Director, Insight & Design Veterans Affairs John Brothers President T. Rowe Price Foundation Jane Brown President Robert W Deutsch Foundation Charlie Cannon Assoc Professor & Department Head Industrial Design, RISD Demi Canty MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Karen Carroll Dean, Center for Art Education MICA Candace Chance Founder The B'more Co-Lab Becky Chen Designer Development Seed Wen Hueichou Professor, Department & Graduate School of Digital Media Design National Yunlin University Justin Cook Senior Lead, Sustainable Development The Finnish Innovation Fund Alisa Cordesius Director of Social Innovation Indiegogo Elizabeth Danzico Chair, MFA Interaction Design / Creative director SVA / NPR Lee Davis Co-Director, Center for Social Design MICA Peter Doo Director of What's Next? Doo Consulting LLC Lorraine Doo Partner Doo Consulting Annie Eddy Digital Content Manager ChangingMedia CaryEuwer Entrepreneur/Co-Founder Bramble Lab Robert Fabricant Partner Dalberg Design Impact Group Scott Fairbanks Commons Associate Director Ashoka U Bori Feher Program Director at MOME EcoLab, Research Fellow Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest Ramsey Ford Co-Founder, Design Director Design Impact Suzanne Frasier Associate Professor Morgan State University Eva Fury Robert W. Deutsch Social Design Fellow MICA Center for Social Design Christine Gaspar Executive Director Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) Michelle Geiss Co-Founder & CEO Impact Hub Baltimore |
Jennifer Goold
Executive Director Neighborhood Design Center Anthony Guido Director, Design for Social Impact MDES Program The University of the Arts Marsha Hammond Assistant Director of Career Development MICA Dawn Hancock Founder + Managing Director Firebelly Jonas Hauptman Director - Product Design University of the Arts Sydney Heimbrock Executive Director Innovation Lab at OPM Will Holman General Manager Open Works Davin Hong Principal Living Design Lab Briony Hynson Deputy Director Neighborhood Design Center Emily Ianacone Presidential Innovation Fellow White House Presidential Innovation Fellows Pavlina Ilieva Program Director, Undergraduate Architecture, School of Architecture + Planning Morgan State University Kayla Ingram MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Diamond James MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Kippy Joseph Associate Director Rockefeller Foundation Melanie Kahl Senior Design Strategist and Project Lead Design Impact Group, Dalberg EstherKang MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Chris Kasabach Executive Director Watson Foundation Stacy Klingbeil Field Coordinator Design for America Hannah Koenig Designer in Residence U.S. Department of State Gabriel Kroiz Chair Undergraduate Design Morgan State University Paul Kruchoski Policy Advisor, the Collaboratory U.S. Department of State Panthea Lee Principal Reboot Peggy Liao MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Sarah Lidgus Founder Small City New York Olivia Lindsey MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Sachin Malhan Executive Partner Ashoka Changemakers Cally Markovsky Office of Community Engagement MICA Silvia Mata-Marin Robert W. Deutsch Social Design Fellow MICA Jennifer May Director, Designmatters ArtCenter College of Design Kristin McCall-Kiley MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Megan Miller Director of Career Development MICA Mari Nakano Visual Strategy Lead UNICEF Innovation Lan Nguyen Experience Designer Experience Institute Liz Ogbu Founder + Principal Studio O Miya Osaki Partner Diagram Tina Park Partner Diagram Julia Passik MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Seema Patel Chief of Innovation Design and Advisory, Global Development Lab USAID |
Hugh Pocock
Coordinator Sustainability and Social Practice MICA Natacha Poggio Director, Assistant Professor Design Global Change, Lamar University Christine Prefontaine Open Innovation Consultant World Bank Group Amanda Ramos Innovation Director Gensler Malcolm Rio Faculty MICA Michael Rosenband Coach/ Consultant Carver Vo-Tech HS Bon Secours Community Works Debra Rubino V.P. Strategic Communication MICA Sonia Sarkar Chief Policy and Engagement Officer Baltimore City Health Department Will Schmitt Innovation Services Officer World Bank Ian Schuler CEO Development Seed Iris Schutten Coordinator Social Practices WdKA, Willem de Kooning Academy, University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam Stefan Schwarzkopf Design Director Inscape Publico Sanjit Sethi Director Corcoran School of the Arts and Design Andrew Shea Designer and Educator MANY Sauleh Siddiqui Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins University Deanna Siller Principal, Consulting Director Gensler Becky Slogeris Social Design Associate, Center for Social Design MICA Rafael Smith Senior Designer IDEO.org Jess Solomon Director Art in Praxis Courtney Spearman Design Specialist National Endowment for the Arts Whitney Stewart Community Centered Designer Context Partners Beth Strommen Director Baltimore Office of Sustainability Peter Stubb Design Principal Gensler Roger Teeuwen Head of School Design & Social Practices Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences Cecili Thompson Williams Founder & Chief Strategist We Divine Water Tacy Trowbridge Education Programs Adobe Samhir Vasdev Innovation Specialist World Bank Susan Verba Director, Center for Design in the Public Interest UC Davis Carly Wais MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Caitlin Weber MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Mike Weikert Director, Center for Social Design & MA in Social Design MICA Hasdai Westbrook Editorial Lead, Impact Design Hub + CEO, ChangingM Impact Design Hub Laetitia Wolff Program Director, Civic Initiatives AIGA/NY JustinWuetcher MA in Social Design (MASD) MICA Stephanie Yoffee Design Policy Researcher MarylandByDesign Joseph Zinter Assistant Director Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design |