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Cheryl Heller

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 is the founder of the first Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts, President of the design lab "CommonWise", and winner of the AIGA Medal for her contribution to the field of design.[2][3][4] She is a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellow,[5] and Heller has been credited as founding the first design department in an advertising agency.[which?] [6] Her work focuses on investigating the contributions design has on human health and its impact on society.[7]

Education

Heller attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where she studied painting and printmaking.[8] She returned to school to earn a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at Ohio Wesleyan University.[citation needed] After earning her bachelor's degree, she continued to study at Goddard College, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing.[9]

Careers

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

After becoming president of the advertising company, she grew the division to $50m in billings when it took off and became an independent entity. She began to help grow businesses from small enterprises into multi-billion dollar global market leaders. Heller has worked as a small businesses consultant, working with businesses, as well as writing about design strategies for businesses.[14][15] She has taught creativity to leaders and organizations around the world 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] on the Innovation Advisory Board for the Lumina Foundation, and serves as an adviser to DataKind.[20] She is one of the advisors at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID on an initiative in an attempt to integrate Human Centered Design into public health. She has led an initiative to diminish 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 and has been profiled through articles in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, and many others.[23]

MFA Program

Heller was the founding chairperson of the MFA program for Design for Social Innovation in 2011 for the School of Visual Arts.[24] This degree program is recognized as being the first of its kind.[25] It allows students to further develop skills in several fine art skills after they have received their bachelor's degree. It is a three-year program where graduates are working as creative leaders in government, industry, healthcare, technology and global NGOs.[expand acronym] [26]

Heller began to teach an undergraduate class called “Design for Good” where she helps kids develop with leadership skills.[27][failed verification]

References

  1. ^ a b "2014 AIGA Medalist: Cheryl Heller". AIGA. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
  2. ^ "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. ^ "Cheryl Heller". DSI / Social Design - School of Visual Arts. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Cheryl Heller joins ASU as director of design integration | ASU News". news.asu.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  9. ^ Heller, Cheryl. "Cheryl Heller". Linkedin.[dead link‍]
  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. ^ "Cheryl Heller – DSI / Social Design". dsi.sva.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  25. ^ AIGA: The Professional Association for Design. 2011-09-01.
  26. ^ Burrell, Jackie. "Thinking About Getting an MFA? Here's What You Need to Know". The Balance Careers. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  27. ^ "Defining Social Innovation". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
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