Maggie Breslin, MDes

Program Director

Maggie leads efforts in education, co-design and community building. She has spent 20 years as a designer and researcher in the healthcare space, including Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation, and has done extensive work on the development and implementation of tools and programs that aim to foster conversations in exam rooms, hospital rooms, homes and public spaces about our lives and our health. Maggie teaches in the Design for Social Innovation program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in NYC and has published in journals across the country, including the Design Issues to Archives of Internal Medicine. Maggie holds a Masters of Design (MDes) from Carnegie Mellon University.