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  • Kelly Ernst

    Part-time Lecturer

    Email
    kelly.ernst@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Kelly Ernst

    Profile

    Kelly Ernst (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary design strategist who works to advance social impact innovation through the imagining of cultural futures, new design practices and cultivating spaces of belonging. Kelly applies design strategy to areas of social impact innovation including the energy transition and art and culture industries. Kelly has contributed to design research, innovation and strategy on various initiatives including standing up Duke Energy’s transformation and innovation studio, creative economy recovery research with the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, the development and launch of the Creative Vitality Summit, has sat on panels for the Music Policy Forum, Wyoming Business Alliance and The Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant program as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Creative Forces initiative. Currently, Kelly contributes as a design strategist at strategy design consulting firm Method, and sits on the board of the Civic Canopy, a civic and social innovation nonprofit.

    Degrees Held

    BA in Art History and Technology, Arts and Media Practice (TAM)
    MS in Strategic Design and Management 
    Certificate Multi-Cultural Leadership 

    Research Interests

    Strategic design, social impact innovation design, creative economy, energy transition 

    Past Courses

    Business Models & Ent Strategy
    PUDM 4322, Fall 2023

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