Our Mission
Design For America @ Carnegie Mellon University is a group of interdisciplinary students who use their unique design, engineering, and social sciences perspectives to confront social issues in innovative ways.
Human-Centered Design
As a chapter of national DFA, we empathize and work with our users as we research, ideate, prototype, test and develop solutions. Learn more about the human-centered design process here.
Collaboration
By collaborating in teams of students with diverse backgrounds and interests, we develop well-rounded solutions and fuse collaboration, leadership, and creativity.
Social Good
Student-led teams partner closely with local community organizations to identify challenging social issues to design and develop comprehensive solutions that benefit the broader community. We tackle extraordinary challenges in health, economy, education, and environment. Learn more about our community partners here.
How to Join
Join our d-list and come to our studio meetings in the fall!
Executive Board
President
Erica Fu
Sophomore
Information Systems
PR Chair
Crystal Lee
Junior
Computer Science
Technology Chair
Kelly Wang
Junior
Computer Science
Project Manager
Spoorthi Cherivirala
Sophomore
Computer Science & Design
Design Chair
Thien Le
Sophomore
Design
Community Partners
