Carissa Carter

Carissa Carter is a designer, geoscientist, and Academic Director at the Stanford d.school. Carissa drives the d.school’s pedagogy and teaches courses on the intersection of data and design, design for climate change, maps, and the visual sorting of information. She helped lead the d.school’s seminal Stanford 2025 project on the future of higher education and pursues projects at the crossover between design, science, and emerging technology.