Meet the Designers | Design Career Fair 2025

Learn about the many shapes design careers can take from National Design Award winners, visiting colleges, and guest designers at the Design Career Fair. Get to know peers and hear stories about designers’ paths to success in small breakout groups.

Participating colleges include Bronx Community College, Cooper Union, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York School of Interior Design, Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts, and Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York.

Participating Designers

Alejandra Castrodad Rodríguez

Executive Director, Resilient Power Puerto Rico (2025 National Design Award winner, Climate Action)

Alex Haggar

Industrial Designer, Humanscale

Ana Rice

Designer and Art Director

Angela Lester

Experience Design Partner, PwC

Bryan Hamecs

Creative Director, IBM Blue Studio

Chae Park

Leroy Street Studio

Dan Penge

Humanscale

Danai Metoyer

Architectural Designer, Leroy Street Studio

Diamond Ho

Design Director, Microsoft AI

Elise McMahon

Founder/Creative Director, LikeMindedObjects

Erin Kim

Senior Designer, IBM

Geoff Shafer

IBM

Grace Suthata Jiranuntarat

SCAPE Landscape Architecture

Jeffrey Bolt

Fashion Designer, Designer Wovens/ Denim, DKNY

John Robert Moore

Senior Motion Designer, Brand, IBM

Jules Sherman

Children's National Hospital (2025 National Design Award winner, Product Design)

Kristian Mentor

Null NYC

Lesli Stinger

Principal, Leroy Street Studio Architecture

Leyden Lewis

Leyden Lewis Design Studio

LI IORDANOV DAN

HOUSE OF JUNE™

Little Wing Lee

Founder / Creative Director, Studio & Projects (2025 National Design Award winner, Interior Design)

Liwei Wang

Senior Designer, IBM

Liz Danzico

VP Design, Microsoft AI

Mariana Conde

Senior Designer, PwC

Mariana Vidal Escabi

Artist, Designer and Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design.

Melitta Baumeister & Michal Plata

MELITTA BAUMEISTER (2025 National Design Award winner, Fashion Design)

Neda Ghaderi

UI/UX Manager Consultant, PwC

Nu Goteh

Deem Journal / ROOM FOR MAGIC (2025 National Design Award winner, Emerging Designer)

Rohan Joseph Cherayil

Architectural Designer, Leroy Street Studio

Shira Grosman

Senior Designer, SCAPE Landscape Architecture

Story Wiggins

Landscape Architect, TERREMOTO (2025 National Design Award winner, Landscape Architecture)

TÔ Long-Nam

Chair of Accessory + Sneaker + Fashion Eyewear Design, Savannah College of Art and Design

Tommy Mai

Industrial Design Intern, Humanscale

Vanessa B. Miller

Metalsmith, BQMNY

Victor M. Newman

VP Brand Creative, Sesame Workshop

Zoe Goodman

Architectural Designer, Leroy Street Studio

2025 Special Thanks

Design learning at Cooper Hewitt is made possible by The Pinkerton Foundation, The Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundation, The Hirsch Family Foundation, PwC Charitable Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, internal Smithsonian Institution funds from the Youth Access Grants for Youth Innovation in Rural America, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.