The Graduate Program in Design announces the formation of its advisory group, the Pro Council.

This group of leaders in design, technology, research, and scholarship will help the program understand the evolving needs of the professional world and identify emerging challenges and opportunities in the design domain.

The Pro Council will support and inspire the new transcisciplinary graduate design program by helping us shape our curriculum, participating in critiques and special events, and engaging students through lectures and studio visits.

Pro Council Members:

• William Burnett, executive director, Design Program, Stanford University
• Denise Caruso, author and journalist (the New York Times); founder, Hybrid Vigor Institute
• Valerie Casey, founder, Designer's Accord
• Denise Gonzales Crisp, designer and professor, North Carolina State University
• Marc Davis, educator and designer, Yahoo!
• Peter DiSabatino, designer, architect, and educator, Art Center College of Design
• Abbe Don, UI designer and senior project leader, IDEO
• BJ Fogg, entrepreneur, researcher, and educator, persuasive computing, Stanford University
• Christopher Ireland, entrepreneur and researcher
• Joe Lambert, founder, Center for Digital Storytelling
• Doreen Lorenzo, president, Frog Design
• Davis Masten, chair, President's Circle of the National Academies
• Bill Moggridge, founder, IDEO
• Margeigh Novotny, vice president strategy & experience, MOTO Development Group
• Eric Paulos, research scientist, Intel Labs, urban atmospheres project
• Howard Rheingold, author, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (MIT Press), Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Basic Books), and others
• Doug Sery, editor, MIT Press
• Nathan Shedroff, entrepreneur, designer, and CCA chair, Design Strategy MBA
• Zahid Sardar, design writer, San Francisco Chronicle
• Cameron Sinclair, founder, Architecture for Humanity