Gabrielle Santa-Donato

Lecturer and Fellow in the Life Design Lab, Stanford Design Group

San Francisco

Gabrielle is a deeply curious experience designer. She is currently a lecturer and fellow in the Life Design Lab at Stanford, teaching students of all ages to employ design tools and mindsets to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. Previously, she worked in many facets of education, from teaching in a low income charter school, researching risk, resilience and creativity in child development, assessing impact in education non­-profits, and, more recently, building new communities of diverse professionals using design thinking in New York and Chile with The Design Gym and here in the bay area with the K12 Lab at The Stanford d.school.