Rhea Alexander

Rhea is a Strategic Design and Management Professor at the Parsons School of Design at the New School University. She is the Founder and Director of The Parsons Entrepreneurs Lab, board member of the NYC Innovation Collective, and Co-founder of MakeOurFuture.coop, a global consulting cooperative dedicated to transitioning organizations to more sustainable and equitable practices.

She’s a serial entrepreneur who has also held positions as Co-director of the MS SDM Program and Associate Director of the BBA Program. Her research focuses on the intersection of strategic design and innovation, particularly the integration of design methods into entrepreneurial and organizational problem-solving processes. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and is an advisor and mentor to startups at Venture Out, XRC, and several other incubators and accelerators.

Rhea co-founded MakeOurFuture.coop, a global consulting cooperative dedicated to transitioning organizations to more sustainable and equitable practices.

She lives in NYC, where she has been a long-time member of the National Arts Club. There, she helps advance their mission to provide free and open access to programming and education in the arts.