Thomas Both is a designer and a design educator. For the past decade, Thomas Both has been teaching, coaching, and mentoring practitioners across many sectors. Through workshops and classes, and in his current role as Director of the Designing for Social Systems program, Thomas’s passion is helping people understand the practice of human-centered design - and their ability as designers - to innovate how they learn, think and problem solve.

Working with both students and professionals, Thomas has co-designed and co-led immersive hands-on experiences including the Design Thinking Bootcamp Executive workshop and various iterations of our fundamentals course, Design Thinking Studio. From these programs, he’s developed methodologies and created some of the most-used public resources free to the public such as the Bootcamp Bootleg.

As Director of Designing for Social Systems, he teaches professionals how to apply design thinking to complex social challenges, and facilitates workshops for social impact leaders to develop a more human and strategic practice.

Nadia Roumani is Senior Designer of the Designing for Social Systems Program at the d.school, and co-founder of Stanford's Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative (EPLI). At Stanford, Nadia focuses on helping philanthropists and nonprofit leaders become more strategic, creative and effective. She integrates design thinking, systems thinking, and strategic planning to help organizations better scope the challenges they want to address by engaging end-users, increasing intra-organizational creativity, and incorporating radical collaboration. Nadia returned to Stanford in 2012 as an inaugural d.school fellow, applying design thinking to philanthropy. In 2014, she was named the Walter and Esther Hewlett Design Fellow with Stanford PACS.

Over the past two decades she has launched several organizations and initiatives including Stanford’s Effective Philanthropy Lab; the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University; the Women Leaders Intercultural Program with Ireland’s former President Mary Robinson; Global Policy Innovations Program at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (CCEIA); the Building Bridges Program at the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art (DDFIA); and the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute (AMCLI) at the University of Southern California.

Nadia received her BA in economics and international relations from Stanford University and her MA in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is a board member of the El Hibri Foundation.