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Cheryl Heller
NationalityAmerican
EducationOhio Wesleyan University
Goddard College
RMIT University, Design PhD[citation needed]
Known forFounding the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts[1]
Nonprofit contributions[citation needed]
AwardsAIGA award, 2014[1]

Cheryl Heller is an American business strategist and designer. She founded the first Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts, is the President of the design lab "CommonWise", and is the recipient of the AIGA Medal for her contribution to the field of design.[2][3][4] A Rockefeller Bellagio Fellow,[5] Heller has also been credited with founding the first design department in an advertising agency.[which?][2] Heller's work focuses on the impact of design on human health and society.[6]

Education

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Heller attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where she studied painting and printmaking.[7][failed verification] She earned a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University.[2] She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College.[8] In 2021, Heller earned her PhD in Design from the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology).[9]

Careers

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Heller began her career in advertising at Giardini/Russell in Boston.[10] She co-founded Heller/Breene within the WCRS[expand acronym] Group. Heller/Breene was a small design firm where she served as chairperson and creative director until 1989; two months after her departure, WCRS Group sold the firm to Cipriani.[11][12][13] After leaving Heller/Breene, she worked at Wells Rich Greene BDDP. In 2003, she began partnering with entrepreneurs and organizations to advance social and environmental projects.[citation needed]

After becoming president of the advertising company, she grew the division to $50m in billings, at which point it became an independent entity.[citation needed] She has since helped grow small enterprises into multi-billion dollar global market leaders, working as a consultant and writing about design strategies.[14][15] She has taught creativity to leaders and organizations and written about branding.[16]

In 1999, she created the "Ideas that Matter" program for Sappi, which awards grants to designers working on social and environmental projects.[17] Heller is the former board chair and current Adviser to PopTech,[18] a Senior Fellow at the Babson Social Innovation Lab,[19] a member of the Innovation Advisory Board for the Lumina Foundation, and an adviser to DataKind.[20] She advises the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID on an initiative to integrate Human Centered Design into public health, and has led an initiative to reduce the flow of young people from foster care to homelessness.[21] Heller served as an adviser to Paul Polak and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum on the exhibit, "Design for the Other 90%."[22] She is a Matrix Award winner for excellence in communication.[23]

MFA Program

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In 2011, Heller founded the MFA program for Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts.[2] This program is recognized as the first of its kind.[24] The three-year program enables students with bachelor's degrees to further develop their skills and become creative leaders in government, industry, healthcare, technology and global Non-Government Organizations (NGOs).[25]

References

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  1. ^ a b "2014 AIGA Medalist: Cheryl Heller". AIGA. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
  2. ^ a b c d "DSI Faculty Directory". Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  3. ^ "CommonWise: Cheryl Heller". CommonWise. April 2, 2014. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  4. ^ Potts, Emily (March 1, 2014). "AIGA Medalist: Cheryl Heller". AIGA.
  5. ^ "Cheryl Heller Awarded a Practitioner Fellowship in the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Program". DSI - Design for Social Innovation.
  6. ^ Ngowi, Helena Aminiel; Winkler, Andrea Sylvia; Braae, Uffe Christian; Mdegela, Robinson Hammerthon; Mkupasi, Ernatus Martin; Kabululu, Mwemezi Lutakyawa; Lekule, Faustin Peter; Johansen, Maria Vang (2019-06-05). "Taenia solium taeniosis and cysticercosis literature in Tanzania provides research evidence justification for control: A systematic scoping review". PLOS ONE. 14 (6): e0217420. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1417420N. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0217420. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6550401. PMID 31166983.
  7. ^ "Cheryl Heller joins ASU as director of design integration | ASU News". news.asu.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  8. ^ Heller, Cheryl. "Cheryl Heller". Linkedin.[dead link‍]
  9. ^ HELLER, Cheryl (2022). "The performative role of language in social design." PhD Thesis. RMIT University. https://doi.org/10.25439/rmt.27599256
  10. ^ Robin, Hoffman (3 November 1989). "Goodbye baked beans, hello Big Apple - top Boston creative joins Image Group: Cheryl Heller joins division of Wells, Rich Greene". Back Stage. 30 (44) – via Gale.
  11. ^ Warner, Judy (27 November 1989). "Cheryl Heller trades chores of independence for a shared creative challenge at troubled WRG. (Wells, Rich, Greene)". ADWEEK Eastern Edition. 30 (48): 24(2) – via Cengage Learning, Inc.
  12. ^ Rothenberg, Randall (1989-12-26). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; Heller Breene Sold by WCRS". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  13. ^ Elliott, Stuart (1993-02-26). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS -- ADVERTISING; A creative talent at a big agency jumps ship for 'entrepreneurial' shop". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  14. ^ Cheryl, Heller (Summer 1999). "Why Clients Always Get the Work They Deserve". Design Management Journal. Former Series. 10 (3): 35–38.
  15. ^ "Sustainable Brands - Cheryl Heller". Sustainable Brands. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  16. ^ Cooke, Kenneth; Heller, Cheryl (2010-06-10). "Visual Branding in a Multiple-Media World". Design Management Journal. Former Series. 9 (3): 44–49. doi:10.1111/j.1948-7169.1998.tb00217.x.
  17. ^ "The Start of Sappi's Ideas that Matter: Cheryl Heller". Sappi Global. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
  18. ^ "PopTech : People : Cheryl Heller". 2017-10-18. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  19. ^ College, Babson. "Cheryl Heller". www.babson.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  20. ^ "DataKind | Our Team". www.datakind.org. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  21. ^ "Cheryl Heller | The Design School". design.asu.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  22. ^ "Cheryl Heller on the Social Innovation Revolution". Print Magazine. 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  23. ^ Hinnant, Amanda; Hudson, Berkley (2011-12-01), "The Magazine Revolution, 1880–1920", The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Oxford University Press, pp. 113–132, doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199234066.003.0007, ISBN 978-0-19-923406-6
  24. ^ AIGA: The Professional Association for Design. 2011-09-01.
  25. ^ Burrell, Jackie. "Thinking About Getting an MFA? Here's What You Need to Know". The Balance Careers. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
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