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Cheryl Heller
Design for Social Innovation, SVA/CommonWiseCheryl Heller has founded two companies and taught creativity to leaders and organizations around the world. In addition to her work with corporations, foundations and non-profits, she is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation, at SVA.
She is an Advisor to PopTech, a laboratory for disruptive innovation focused on technology, a Senior Fellow at the Babson Social Innovation Lab and the Lewis Institute, on the Innovation Advisory Board for the Lumina Foundation, and an advisor to DataKind, an organization dedicated to putting big data to use in service to humanity. She writes for the Unreasonable Institute, Good.is and NextBillion.