Jennifer May

Jennifer May finds innovation at the intersections of design, art, business, education and social change. Jennifer is the Executive Director of Outreach and DEIAB for the Interdisciplinary Studies Division and leads Designmatters, the social innovation program at ArtCenter College of Design, where she oversees a dynamic portfolio of external partnerships, curricular projects, special initiatives, and publications exploring how design and art can effect change in the areas of sustainable development, social entrepreneurship, health, public policy and social justice. Jennifer is also an Associate Professor in Humanities & Sciences and teaches Designing Social Enterprise, a course exploring the intersection of impactful design and mission-driven hybrid business models. Jennifer is the editor of Design for Social Innovation: Case Studies from Around the World (Routledge 2021), managing editor of LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation (DAP, 2016), an award-winning publication on new practices in social innovation, and editor of the open-source LEAP Dialogues: The Educator’s Guide for which she received the 2018 Design Incubation Educator Award. She was named an Impact Maker to Watch in Los Angeles in 2020 and was part of the inaugural LEAD LA cohort for Coro Southern California. Jennifer earned her M.B.A. from USC Marshall School of Business, where she was a Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab Graduate Fellow and Forte Fellow.