Teaching
I am an Associate Professor oat Parsons School of Design, The New School. I co-direct the Transdisciplinary Design MFA, and teach in the BBA and MS programs in Strategic Design & Management, and through university-wide lectures at The New School.
Current courses at Parsons
Community-Engaged Business Models Rethinking business model design frames and tools to build relationships and trust with and for communities. Revenue model, unit economics, governance, and capital pathway are treated as a combined exploratory design challenge.
Sustainable Business Models: How organizations design for conditions of continuation rather than extraction. Applies lifecycle thinking, systems mapping, and contributive economic logic to real organizations navigating structural constraints.
Transdisciplinary Design: Thesis Synthesis, Forum, and Convening
Previously
Business Models and Entrepreneurial Strategy, New Design Firms, Design Leadership Parsons
Venture Lab: For students who have built real relationships in their communities and want to engage in participatory action research, co-design, and business model development alongside the people they’re designing with.
Transdisciplinary Design Superstudio: Collaborative, cross-disciplinary studio work on complex systemic challenges.
Executive Education: Innovation and Design
Lean Launchpad, Lifecycles and Flows, Bodies and Buildings, If Products Could Tell Their Stories NYU ITP and SVA Products of Design
Entrepreneurship and design practice Columbia and Barnard
Writing
“Changing Barriers to Fundraising Cultures: Ownership Wayfinding” — Social Innovations Journal, Vol. 16 No. 1, in partnership with Ashoka.