Mark Randall is founder and partner of Worldstudio. Their unique area of expertise is in creating and implementing programs and projects for corporate clients that support their social responsibility platforms.

Panthea Lee is the co-founder of Reboot, a service design firm that works to improve the programs and investments of socially oriented institutions.

Ramsey Ford is a cofounders of Design Impact, a non-profit organization whose mission is to embed design within non-profit organizations to create innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing needs, such as better access to water, safe environments or livelihood.

Bob McKinnon is Founder and President of YELLOWBRICKROAD, a company that designs social change through programming, communications, advocacy, and action. YELLOWBRICKROAD works on issues ranging from childhood obesity to climate change.

Sharon Chang is the Founder of Yoxi, a creative competition to discover big ideas and bright stars in social innovation. Through the online platform, launched in 2010, teams of problem solvers battle to create and communicate the best solutions to social issues.

Vera Sacchetti is a design critic and writer with a passion for social design. She is a recent graduate of SVA’s MFA in Design Criticism where, following a year of research, she developed “Design Crusades: A Critical Reflection on Social Design,” a thesis surveying social design projects abroad, as well as their reflection in the American design media, informing students and professionals back home.

Michael Blakeney is the development director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, where he is involved in all aspects of support for programs, exhibitions and general operating expenses.

Lara Galinsky is an author, speaker, expert on working on purpose, and senior vice president of Echoing Green, a groundbreaking nonprofit organization with the mission to unleash next generation talent to solve the world’s biggest problems.

Instead of pills and scalpels, Jay uses creative design to improve health. He is a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist with a masters in public health from Johns Hopkins. He appreciates aesthetics, our rapidly changing culture, and our health. He straddles lines — both pop culture and traditional healthcare have embraced his ideas.

Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts. He is editor in chief of Core77.com, Coroflot.com, and Designdirectory.cdom, and writes and lectures widely on the impact of design on contemporary culture.