Erica Estrada-Liou is the Director of UMD’s Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She engages students, staff, faculty and administrators in applying design to their work, both at the course level and university-wide. Erica is also a co-founder of d.light design, a social enterprise that provides affordable light and power products to people living off of the electrical grid. After seeing d.light’s first product to market, she joined the d.school as a Design Fellow, and later became the co-founder and director of the Social Entrepreneurship Lab. While at the d.school, she taught various classes and workshops on human-centered design applied to poverty and various social issues, both in the U.S. and abroad. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Erica Estrada-Liou
Director of the Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at UMD
