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

Maria Yang
Kendall Rohsenow Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Director, Morningside Academy for Design; Faculty Director for Academics, MIT D-Lab; Founder and Director, MIT Ideation Lab

Marion Cunningham
Associate Director, Administration

Svafa Grönfeldt
Professor of Practice, SA+P; Faculty Director, MITdesignX

J. Kim Vandiver
Project Manus director, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering

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

N52 MAD
Chris Haynes
Shop manager

Katherine Higgins
Academic-Research Program Administrator

Allison John
Financial Assistant

William (Bill) McKenna
Technical instructor

Roi Salgueiro Barrio
Curator–Director

Jennifer Spungin
Administrative Assistant

Rosa Weinberg
K-12 Design Education Lead

Adélaïde Zollinger
Director of Communications

About MIT MAD
Makerspaces
Making and prototyping are at the heart of the design process. MAD celebrates campus making, and fosters student maker communities across MIT.
J. Kim Vandiver
Project Manus director, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering

Jonathan Hunt
Project Manus associate director & maker IT Guru

Seth Avecilla
Maker Technical Specialist

Katherine Gilbreath
Administrative Assistant

Chris Murphy
Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Jess Osserman
Maker Technical Specialist

Oliver Thomas
Maker Digital Systems Architect

Lee Zamir
Maker Technical Specialist

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, SA+P; Faculty Director, MITdesignX

Yscaira Jimenez
Systems change innovator, investor, entrepreneur, lecturer

Gilad Rosenzweig
Executive Director, MITDesignX

Lauren Witte
Program Coordinator

About MITdesignX