My Oldest, Zoe Lee, Graduates from RISD!

We are so proud of our oldest, Zoe Lee, for graduating from Rhode Island School of Design this past June with a degree in Industrial Design, and a minor in Nature Culture Sustainability Studies.

She was chosen for the Entrepreneurial Award in her major, Industrial Design:

She was asked to present on her minor, NCSS (Nature Culture Sustainability Studies):

Her soft goods project on designing a backpack was selected by a jury to be presented in the Senior Art Show.

What is she doing after graduation?

She has a fellowship this summer in London with Dark Matters Labs. They are a kind of think tank that combines design, public policy, and cities/countries by creating research and toolkits to “transform our food, housing, land, material, and natural systems towards a future of mutual thriving.” In other words, we will all have to work together, all over the world, towards sustainable solutions for climate change.

When she is back this fall, she is starting two design studios. The first is Beam. They are We are a small & agile core team of designers, scientists, and researchers, working across human and living systems to solve the climate crisis.

Her other design studio start-up is Generalist, a creative studio. Learn more here.

To learn more about the cool things our daughter has done, check out her website, Zoe Lee.

Here’s a picture book to celebrate milestones such as college graduations.

The Days Are Long, The Years Are Short by Aya Morton

This is a book to give to the PARENTS of graduates! How do the years fly by? What happened to the baby/toddler/little one that grew up so fast? Here’s to all the memories of raising a child, and the satisfaction and wonder of watching children grow up. [picture book, ages 3 and up]