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.

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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

Lead Research Associate, GSD EDE Programs

Megan Panzano

Senior Director of Early Design EducationLecturer in ArchitectureView Profile

Shaka Dendy

Program Coordinator, Early Design EducationView Profile

Kelly Teixeira Wisnaskas

Student Accommodations CoordinatorAssistant Director of Student Support and Services, Title IX Coordinator for StudentsView Profile

Ian Miley

Design Critic in ArchitectureView Profile

GSD EDE Pedagogy Projects Team

Elif Erez

_{GSD MArch I, 2021}

_{MDes, Narratives 2022}

Blake Mitchell

_{GSD MArch I AP, 2021}

_GSD _{2021 Irving Fellow}

Caleb Negash

_{GSD MArch I, 2022}

Tosin Odugbemi

_{GSD MArch I, 2024}

Allie Palmore

_{GSD MArch I, 2024}

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.