Teddy is a University Innovation Fellow at Fordham University and an undergraduate student majoring in Business Administration, with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and a minor in Visual Arts. Teddy was born in New Jersey; however, he spent the majority of his adolescence living in the Netherlands. His experience abroad has heavily influenced his perception and professional outlook. When he returned to the United States, he saw his parents' start their own businesses; which made him want to follow in their footsteps with the hopes that one day he will start a company of his own.

Since the age of 15, Teddy has been involved in Social Media and Sales, where he was able to use his creative ability to bring in customers and positively impact brand awareness. He further followed his passions by getting involved in a start-up company and taking on an internship at a Commercial Real Estate company. Teddy has always challenged himself and has been passionate about giving back to society. He has done so by getting involved in community service when he was the director for events at a charter school in New Jersey and his contributions to the Ecuadorean Civic Committee of New Jersey. In all of his endeavors, Teddy has leveraged his creativity and demonstrated talent in Graphic Design.

Impact

By the end of training, Fordham fellows decided to focus on bringing Design Thinking to the broader Fordham community to foster more innovative problem-solving and inspire Fordham students to think outside of the box about issues that matter to them in their everyday lives.

We taught over 16 hours of class time to over 600 students at the Gabelli School of Business. The end goal was to gain feedback from the freshman student body in order to find a permanent place for Design Thinking in the core curriculum. Exposing freshmen to Design-Thinking and Fordham’s entrepreneurial resources allows freshman to better engage with innovation on campus and master the skills needed for day-to-day creative problem-solving in the real world.