Leticia Britos Cavagnaro

Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Ph.D., is the Deputy Director of the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter). She is a lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school), where she teaches university students of all disciplines how to build their creative confidence to become engines of innovation in their own lives, and as members of teams and organizations. She has a Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from Stanford University's School of Medicine, and is a former member of the Research in Education & Design Lab (REDlab) at Stanford’s School of Education. Having witnessed the journey of Stanford students who are transformed by their experience at the d.school, bringing design thinking to more people beyond Stanford has become a priority for Leticia, and she has worked with hundreds of teachers and students of all ages, as well as corporate and non-profit leaders in the US and abroad. Last Summer, Leticia engaged thousands of people from over 130 countries in learning design thinking and applying the methodology to innovate in their contexts, via an experiential MOOC (http://novoed.com/designthinking).