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A San Francisco native, I am 5/8 educator and 5/8 social entrepreneur. Trained as an industrial designer at the Rhode Island School of Design, I have continued my quest for meaningful work at the intersection of design/business/social impact. This has led me to teaching at Pratt Institute, Brown University's Community Environmental College and at my alma mater, where I founded the advanced studio, Design for Social Entrepreneurship, as the youngest adjunct faculty after working for Design that Matters. I just finished working as a marketing and sustainability consultant for a social enterprise in Kathmandu, Nepal, and am currently the Studio Lead and "Design Therapist" for this year's Design for America summer Fellows Program @ Northwestern.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Designing Change


Updated! The published article is here!

A couple of months ago, I was asked to write an article for RISD Views, RISD's alumni publication, on the shifting role of design.  

There are many good definitions of “design,” which have been expanding, shifting, sifting and most of all changing rapidly, along with the rest of the world. But how is industrial design, in particular, changing, and what is happening both at RISD and within the design profession itself?

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