People
Emily Pilloton, Founder
Emily Pilloton is an editor, writer, designer, and humanitarian design entrepreneur/nomad “based” in San Francisco. Trained in architecture with degrees from UC Berkeley and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she started Project H Design as a means to encourage more socially-conscious design initiatives within the product design industry. She has written for print and online publications including GOOD Magazine, ID, and ReadyMade, and is the former Managing Editor of www.Inhabitat.com. She has also taught design theory in Chicago, worked as both an environmental and furniture designer, and lectures internationally about design activism and humanitarian product design. When she isn’t traveling or emailing, Emily enjoys baking cupcakes and playing trivia board games.
Emily can be contacted at emily@projecthdesign.com and would love to hear your feedback, suggestions, ideas, and comments.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EMILY RITTER, Secretary and Treasurer, Renaissance woman and Emily Pilloton’s childhood friend
SARAH RICH, Editor at Dwell, former Managing Editor at Worldchanging and Inhabitat
LAURA GALLOWAY, Founder of Galloway Media Group
PAUL DONALD, Founder of Branch Home
ADVISORY BOARD
CAMERON SINCLAIR, Founder of Architecture for Humanity
ALEX STEFFEN, Founder of Worldchanging
SUSAN SZENASY, Editor-In-Chief of Metropolis Magazine
VALERIE CASEY, IDEO, Creator of the Designers Accord
JOE GEBBIA, Founder of Ecolect
ALLAN CHOCHINOV, Founder of Core77
RIC GREFE, Executive Director of the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA)
AMY NOVOGRATZ, TED Prize Director
CORALIE LANGSTON-JONES, Founder of Social Blueprint
SAYURI STABROWSKI, Teacher at KIPP Infinity
LAURA BRANDMEIER, Interior designer and Design Management student at Pratt




















