Team

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design is composed of multiple entities encompassing learning, making and prototyping, and entrepreneurship activities.


Executive Team

John Ochsendorf

Class of 1942 Professor; Professor of Architecture; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; MacVicar Faculty Fellow; Founding Director, Morningside Academy for Design; Associate Dean for Research, School of Architecture and Planning

Marion Cunningham

Managing Director

Svafa Grönfeldt

Professor of Practice, Morningside Academy for Design; Faculty Director, MITdesignX
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J. Kim Vandiver

Director, Project Manus; Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering; Faculty Director for Research, MIT D-Lab

Ana Pantelic

Executive Director, MIT D-Lab
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Amy Smith

Founding Director, MIT D-Lab; Senior Lecturer Mechanical Engineering
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Skylar Tibbits

Associate Professor, Architecture; Director, Self-Assembly Lab at MIT; Assistant Director for Education, Morningside Academy for Design; MAD Professor

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Chris Haynes

Shop manager

Katherine Higgins

Academic-Research Program Administrator

Allison John

Financial Administrator

William (Bill) McKenna

Technical instructor

Roi Salgueiro Barrio

Curator-Director, Lecturer

Jennifer Spungin

Administrative Assistant

Rosa Weinberg

K-12 Design Education Lead

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About MIT MAD

MAD Making

Making and prototyping are at the heart of the design process. MAD celebrates campus making, and fosters student maker communities across MIT.

Seth Avecilla

Maker Technical Specialist

Katherine Gilbreath

Administrative Assistant

J. Kim Vandiver

Director, Project Manus; Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering; Faculty Director for Research, MIT D-Lab

Jess Osserman

Maker Technical Specialist

Oliver Thomas

Maker Digital Systems Architect

Lee Zamir

Maker Technical Specialist

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About Making

DesignX

MITdesignX is an academic program dedicated to design innovation and entrepreneurship. It empowers students, faculty, and researchers to build new business ventures and forward-thinking solutions addressing critical environmental and human challenges.

Norbert Chang

Lecturer

Svafa Grönfeldt

Professor of Practice, Morningside Academy for Design; Faculty Director, MITdesignX
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Yscaira Jimenez

Systems change innovator, investor, entrepreneur, lecturer

Gilad Rosenzweig

Executive Director, MITDesignX

Lauren Witte

Program Coordinator

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About MITdesignX

MIT D-Lab

MIT D-Lab works with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges.

Nancy Adams

Communications Officer, MIT D-Lab
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S.L. (Libby) Hsu

Associate Director of Academics; Lecturer, MIT D-Lab
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J. Kim Vandiver

Director, Project Manus; Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering; Faculty Director for Research, MIT D-Lab

Heewon Lee

Lecturer, Research Associate; MIT D-Lab
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Kendra Leith

Associate Director for Research, MIT D-Lab
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Libby McDonald

Lecturer, Associate Director for Practice, MIT D-Lab
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Asif Obaidee

Director of Finance and Administration, MIT D-Lab
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Ana Pantelic

Executive Director, MIT D-Lab
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Daniel Sweeney

D-Lab Research Scientist, Biomass Fuel & Cookstoves; Lecturer
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Martha Thompson

Humanitarian Innovation Specialist, MIT D-Lab
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Jack Whipple

Workshop Manager, MIT D-Lab
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Maria Yang

Vice Provost for Faculty; William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Director, Morningside Academy for Design; Faculty Director for Academics, MIT D-Lab; Founder and Director, MIT Ideation Lab

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