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Matthew Harvey
Chief Corporate Engagement & Global Partnerships Officer, Stanford Engineering Center for Global and Online Education
BioMatt Harvey is the chief corporate engagement and global partnerships officer with the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD) in Stanford Engineering. He is responsible for leading development of corporate, collaborator, and prospective donor relationships to drive sustainable engagement and growth opportunities for the Stanford Center for Professional Development and Stanford Online. As a member of SCPD’s senior leadership team, he also serves as lead for the organization’s innovation and strategic roadmap initiatives.
Matt previously served at SCPD as senior director of global partnerships and professional programs, where he developed global collaboration relationships and provided strategic direction for SCPD'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 H 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), she teaches courses on creativity and failure and started a groundbreaking research project on creative capacity building published in Science and covered by Wired magazine. Previously, she founded ReadyMade, the culturally groundbreaking design magazine that ignited the maker movement, and led its acquisition by Meredith Corporation (NASDAQ: MDP). She co-authored the critically acclaimed book on reuse design, ReadyMade: How to Make (Almost) Everything (Random House/Potter). Her artwork has been exhibited in several national museums including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Triennial. Her products can be found on shelves of mass retailers nationwide. Grace has dedicated her life to making things and experiences that cultivate human creativity through the marriage of art + commerce.
