Humera Fasihuddin

Humera is an innovator and program director with three decades of experience in the private and non-profit sectors. She is also the co-founder of the University Innovation Fellows, a program she leads out of Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, or the d.school. Founded in 2012, Humera has created a teaching environment that empower students and faculty to become agents of change in higher education and to create new learning opportunities that will help their peers build creative confidence and hone their entrepreneurial mindsets. As a result, colleges and universities are evolving their offerings and helping prepare to address the complex challenges in the economy of the future. Her work is the subject of social scientist gurus Bev and Etienne Wenger-Trayner's book, Designing for Change: How empowered students can lead an education revolution.