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In 2013, Katie founded Design Affects, an online platform featuring stories from design professionals doing meaningful work. The website ran for five years. Through her work, she began to recognize that methods and practices of social design are not generally institutionalized. Often, budding social designers have to learn things already known by older generations. Crepeau founded her own practice, bringing her learned experience and a business-type consulting service to the world of social design. Her work contributes to an ongoing fabric of knowledge-sharing throughout the social design field, helping designers learn from each other and experts.

Currently, Katie works as a Senior Associate with JLL consulting. There, she has helped lead the expansion of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program internally. In addition, she has also helped to integrate similar programs into the businesses of her clients. 

We were fortunate enough to catch up with Crepeau on Social Design Insights. Have a listen.

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As a strategist, Dr. Heller has led transformational initiatives for corporations of every size and industry. In 1999, she created the Ideas that Matter program for Sappi Global, resulting in over $14 million given to designers working for the public good. Additional clients of hers have included Reebok, Kodak Professional, BlackRock, Marriott Corporation, The Girl Scouts of America, Ford Motor Company, Seagrams, Discovery Networks International, and Seventh Generation. 

In 2014, she earned the AIGA Lifetime Medal. She is also the recipient of a Matrix Award for Women in Communication and has been nominated twice for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards for Communication Design. In 2017, she was awarded the Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship, which she spent working on her book, The Intergalactic Design Guide.

In addition to the recent completion of her Ph.D. dissertation which explores how language either supports or prevents social equity, Dr. Heller is developing a program for Babson College, where she will teach next year, integrating design and business. She has also recently accepted the title of Chief Design Officer for a zero-carbon energy company called Viridi, which makes distributed storage using only renewable energy without any investment in infrastructure. It is the only company to create batteries that are safety approved to use in occupied buildings. 

We had a chance to speak with Cheryl on our podcast Social Design Insights. Have a listen below.

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At critical junctures, Kyle has supported and assisted numerous notable social designers and events, including IDEO.org, Change Labs, MASS Design, D-Rev, Design to Divest, James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design, and the Design for Social Innovation program at the School for Visual Arts (DSI-SVA). His work transcends the traditional role played by philanthropists–i.e., grant making–as he tries to bring his whole self and experience to the table to ensure maximum impact.

In recent years, he has been part of an effort to create stronger bonds between the design and nonprofit communities, most recently as a participant in Design Vanguard, an effort spearheaded by corporate and nonprofit senior design leaders. 

In 2021 he was announced as the new CEO of Cooper Carry, a firm providing architecture, planning, landscape architecture, interior design, experiential graphic design, branding, and sustainability consulting services.

We had a chance to speak with Kyle about the evolving role of philanthropy on Social Design Insights. Have a listen below.

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More recently, Orkidstudio has reorganized as a social enterprise, working for fees in a way more typically found in the for-profit world.

Their evolution as an organization teaches many lessons about how to do good with design.  Acting as a social enterprise, Orkidstudio is able to experiment fully with different forms of project design and construction.  They operate as their own full-service designer & builder.  They also develop different forms of financing, depending on the needs of the community they are serving.

Amid this field of experimentation, a particular focus of Orkid is to disrupt the male-dominated construction sector. They have trained and employed over 1500 women, who now comprise 52% of their work force. The goal is to help women close a serious, systemic income gap, and to take on leadership roles across Orkid’s worksites; developing skills and abilities that are transferable to a broad range of careers.

These tactics are catalyzed under an innovative program called BuildHer, a program which teaches construction trades exclusively to women.  Beyond mere technical training, the program seeks to create community among groups of women, as well as to foster the self-confidence necessary to flourish in an historically male-dominated industry.

We had an opportunity to speak with James Mitchel and Tatu Gatere of Orkidstudio on Social Design Insights, where we spoke to them about the BuildHer program and how they’ve designed their practice.  Have a listen below.

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She spearheaded the Fund’s early direction and initiatives, including the highly regarded the Cultural Emergency Response fund, which saved the Baghdad Central Library after the American invasion.

She was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2004-2009) and the Supervisory Board of the Museum of Bags and Purses, as well as a member of the juries of the Curry Stone Design Prize in New York (2008) and the Princess Margriet Award (2011 – 2014). She is the Recommending Committee of the Holland Dance Festival (The Hague) and the What Design Can Do conference, in Amsterdam. She currently holds the position of chairman of the Johannes Vermeer Prize (since 2017), is a member of the Supervisory Board of Codarts and a member of the Advisory Council of NWO.

We had an opportunity to speak with Els on Social Design Insights. Have a listen below.

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The Rose Fellowship partners emerging architectural designers and cultural practitioners with local community development organizations to facilitate an inclusive approach to development resulting in sustainable and affordable communities. During the process, she managed and nurtured hundreds of diverse design leaders. Under her leadership, the prestigious community development-focused fellowship quadrupled in size. The Enterprise Rose Fellowship work was showcased at the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the New York Center for Architecture, and the National Building Museum and recognized by the American Institute of Architects for its groundbreaking work. 

In 2018-2019, Katie was a Harvard University Graduate School of Design Loeb Fellow. She has taught at the Boston Architectural College and Parsons School of Design at The New School and lectured extensively on sustainable community development and affordable housing. Recently, Katie co-authored, “Growing Urban Habitats: Seeking a New Housing Development Model,” with William R. Morrish and Susanne Schindler. 

Currently, Katie is a Senior Principal of MASS Design Group, an international non-profit architecture firm whose mission is to research, build, and advocate for architecture that promotes justice and human dignity. 

We had a chance to talk to Katie on Social Design Insights about both the Rose Fellowship and her research. Have a listen at the link below.

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In addition, Jason served Governor Patrick of Massachusetts as the Creative Economy Director, and was tasked with growing creative and tech businesses in the state. He formerly was the Director of ArtistLink, a Ford Foundation-funded initiative to stabilize and revitalize communities through the creation of affordable space and innovative environments for creatives. He has also worked for the Mayor of Chicago and New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs. 

During his time at ASU, Schupbach started the ambitious ReDesign.School project to reinvent design education for the 21st century.  Two years before the COVID pandemic, Schupbach’s team at ASU was praised for their adoption of a technology-based learning format. He is currently a key advisor to ASU on diverse projects such as the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities, Roden Crater, the Creative Futures Lab, and ASU’s Los Angeles downtown home.

Schupbach has written extensively on the role of arts and design in making better communities, and his writing has been featured as a Best Idea of the Day by the Aspen Institute. His body of work represents an ongoing commitment to support the value of design in public space, and offers instruction as to how designers and design supporters can work together to create better futures.

We had a chance to speak with Jason on Social Design Insights. Have a listen at the link below.

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