
Harvard GSD Early Design Education Team
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Early Design Education (EDE) programs are crafted to engage participants with design means and methods across scales with the assumption that the program is one of the earliest experiences of thinking through making encountered. Each program interacts the breadth and depth of design talent at Harvard’s GSD with the diverse global public. Please see more information about the GSD EDE team below.

Through this Harvard GSD program, I now see the world in new ways. I discovered how design can have an impact while I achieved goals I did not know I had.
Harvard GSD Design Discovery Virtual student, summer 2021
administrative team
Sr. Director, GSD EDE Programs
Coordinator, GSD EDE Programs
Research Associate, GSD EDE Programs

Research Associate 2022-23, Early Design Education
GSD EDE Pedagogy Projects Team
Lisa Haber-Thomson
GSD Lecturer in Architecture
Director, Online Learning and Education
Tosin Odugbemi
GSD MArch I, 2024
Allie Palmore
GSD MArch I, 2024
Josias Salvador
Harvard College, A.B. Architecture and Ethnic Studies, 2023
GSD EDE Advisory cabinet
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Early Design Education (EDE) programs are informed by a diverse and talented Advisory Cabinet, comprised of GSD students, faculty and staff. The GSD EDE Advisory Cabinet provides guidance with respect to the program pedagogies, audiences, participants and the alignment of all with those of the GSD’s professional degree programs across design disciplines. These individuals are our design pedagogy thought partners as the GSD’s EDE programs evolve.

Junainah Ahmed
MArch I Candidate, 2023
GSD Student Forum, President
K. Michael Hays
Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural TheoryDirector of the Master in Design Studies ProgramView ProfileChris Reed
Co-Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Degree ProgramProfessor in Practice of Landscape ArchitectureView Profile
Eric Shaw
GSD Alumni Council, DEI Chair
Director at Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD), San Francisco, CA
Kelly Teixeira Wisnaskas
Student Accommodations CoordinatorAssistant Director of Student Support and Services, Title IX Coordinator for StudentsView ProfileEx Officio Members




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