Despina Papadopoulos is the CEO and founder of Principled Design, a strategy, design, and prototyping consultancy in NYC. She is founding faculty at SVA’s MFA on design for social innovation and has been an adjunct professor at NYU’s graduate interactive telecommunications program for the past 15 years. Her work is focused on the potential of technology, design, and innovation to re-imagine the way we live and interact with each other. She is equally passionate about theory and practice, finding appropriate solutions and identifying new opportunities for equitable growth.