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Matt Harvey
Chief Corporate Engagement Officer, Stanford Engineering Center for Global and Online Education
BioMatt Harvey is the chief corporate engagement officer with the Stanford Engineering Center for Global and Online Education (CGOE). He is responsible for leading development of corporate, collaborator, and prospective donor relationships to drive sustainable engagement and growth opportunities for CGOE, Stanford Enterprise Education, and Stanford Online. As a member of CGOE’s senior leadership team, he also serves as an executive lead for organizational development initiatives.
Matt previously served at CGOE as senior director of global partnerships and professional programs, where he developed global collaboration relationships and provided strategic direction for CGOE's professional programs and open course portfolios. Prior to that as executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center in Stanford Engineering, he led external relations and provided direction for STVP’s operations, communications, and digital products, including Stanford eCorner, a multimedia digital learning platform to support entrepreneurship and innovation educators and aspiring entrepreneurs around the world. Prior to joining Stanford, Matt worked in content strategy and marketing roles for firms in the tech, entertainment, and non-profit sectors. A Silicon Valley native, Matt holds a degree in Television and Film from San Jose State University. -
Grace Hawthorne
Adjunct Professor, d.school
BioGrace Hawthorne is an entrepreneur, artist, author and educator. She is the Founder/CEO of Paper Punk, an award-winning Origami-meets-LEGO mashup that helps people exercise their creativity, and Foldmade, an innovative work supply system that helps people get stuff done. As an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University's design institute (aka: the d.school) since 2008, she has taught courses on creativity and failure for over fifteen years and spearheaded a groundbreaking research project on creative capacity building published in Science and covered by Wired magazine. Previously, she founded ReadyMade, the culturally disruptive design magazine that ignited the maker movement, and led its acquisition by Meredith Corporation (NASDAQ: MDP) and co-authored the critically acclaimed book on reuse design, ReadyMade: How to Make (Almost) Everything (Random House/Potter). Her products can be found on the shelves of mass retailers and her artwork has been exhibited in several national museums including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Triennial and her products can be found at mass retailers nationwide. She holds an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, MFA from UCLA’s School of Film and Television, and a BA in Visual Communication from UC Berkeley. Her newest book titled, Make Possibilities Happen: How to Transform Ideas into Reality (Random House/10Speed) is part of Stanford d.school’s ten design guides. Grace has dedicated her life to making things and experiences that cultivate human creativity through the marriage of art + commerce. She believes that (almost) anything is possible. www.graciemade.com
