d.school Teaching Team
As soon as Jacqueline del Castillo stepped into the d, she knew she had found a home. She knew it by the people who welcomed her - the people who are passionate about design-thinking and its ability to make a difference and the people who create what has been for her, the most energizing, thought-provoking, and engaging experience at Stanford. As a Stanford graduate student, Jacqueline spent a year at the d.school redesigning the morning radio show experience, fostering corporate innovation, drawing chicken feet, delving into the intricacies of interpersonal and personal team dynamics, and designing a safer and more fuel efficient cooking stove for rural women in Myanmar. Through these experiences, the power of design-thinking to unleash creativity and spur innovation has become nothing but apparent.
Jacqueline grew up in a mid-sized Michigan town. In her teenage years, she found joy in the visual arts - from drawing and photography to architectural drafting and web design. Following high school, she came to California where she spent her undergraduate and graduate years at Stanford studying Organizations, Technology, and Entrepreneurship within the Management Science & Engineering Department. She chose this major because it is highly interdisciplinary and gave her the opportunity to work on a wide-variety of real-world projects, such as consulting to the Mozilla Foundation on the marketing strategy of the Firefox browser and contributing to a book (Rapid Transformation by Behnam Tabrizi) on organizational change.
Over the summer, Jacqueline worked with the d.shrink on developing a set of materials to aid multi-disciplinary teams with their collaborative efforts. She has also worked at Microsoft as an Intern Program Manager driving the user interface design of two Internet Explorer features. She now works as the User Experience Director at a start-up in San Francisco that will be providing online users with an integrated web platform to create and launch their social causes. In the future, she hopes to find additional ways to work at the intersection of design, technology, and social entrepreneurship and to build products and services that foster human connections.
Jacqueline loves coffee in the mornings and chocolate in the evenings and enjoys traveling, cartooning, social dancing, cooking, latin music, laughing, and in sharing what brings meaning to others.
