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.

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

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Megan Panzano

Lecturer in ArchitectureExecutive Director of Early Design, Online, and Executive EducationView Profile

Shaka Dendy

Program Coordinator, Early Design EducationView Profile

Ex Officio Members

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Sarah M. Whiting

Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of ArchitectureView Profile

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