About Me

Ise Lyfe is designer-in-residence and lecturer at the Stanford d.school, as well as lead designer and creator of Forbidden Design--Placemaking for the Formerly Impossible. Ise is a social enterprise executive, professor, and artist with 20 years of experience in specified audience engagement, project development, design, and advocacy. As a product developer and designer, he’s highly proficient in analysis and implementation of measurable outcomes aimed at the reversal of fundamental human rights violations and advancing progressive approaches to health disparity prevention. He’s Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Lyfe Productives, LLC, where he manages a portfolio that includes Kaiser Permanente, The National Fair Housing Alliance, University of California Regents, Comedy Central, and The Los Angeles Department of Transportation.

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