Founder and chief executive officer at Paper Punk; Foldmade
Expertise: Creative direction
Education: University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Berkeley
Grace Hawthorne is the founder and chief executive officer of Paper Punk and Foldmade and an adjunct professor at Stanford University’s d.school. Previously, she founded ReadyMade, the design magazine and co-authored the critically acclaimed book on reuse design, ReadyMade: How to Make Almost Everything (Random House/Potter). Hawthorne holds an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, MFA from UCLA’s School of Film and Television and a BA in Visual Communication from UC Berkeley. Hawthorne dedicates her life to making things and experiences that cultivate human creativity through the marriage of art and commerce.