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<span style="colorfont-size:medium;">Benjamin Riddle<br/>[[Www.furman.edu|Furman University]] Innovation Fellow<br/>Design Maverick, [[Www.futurepartners.is|Future Partners]]</span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: rgb(84arial, 81helvetica, 75)sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">As a </span><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">University Innovation Fellow, Helvetica</span><span style="font-family: arial, Arialhelvetica, sans-serif; fontvertical-sizealign: 13pxbaseline; linewhite-heightspace: 19pxpre-wrap;">Benjamin Riddle is a Duke Scholar at Furman University where he Ben works with student leaders across the United States to equip undergraduates with tools and skills needed to compete in the Office economy of the President future. Through his work at</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;Furman University</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Ben partners with students, faculty, administrators and alumni to explore create new initiatives that use design thinking and social entrepreneurship as strategies a tool for engaged learningand creative problem solving. Recently, Ben has represented the Furman and the Fellows at the HPI School of Design Thinking’s </span>[http://dschool.stanford.edu/ <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">d.convestivalschool</span>]<span style="font-family: arial, and brought Cannon Designhelvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the Associated Colleges </span>[http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/d_school/home.html?L=1 <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HPI School of the SouthDesign Thinking</span>]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, and two Furman departments together to create Design for Social Changesans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an interdisciplinary course that serves as a model for reinvigorating the liberal arts through design</span>[http://continuinged. He has also launched POP Studio – a social design studio for public works projectsuml.edu/deshpande/ <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deshpande Symposium</span>]&nbsp;<br/span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education and at the <br/span>[http://www.nae.edu/ <span style="color: rgb(8417, 8185, 75204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Academy of Engineering</span>]<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'arial, Helvetica, Arialhelvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span> <span style="font-size: 13pxsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-89f4c759-d11c-10de-f132-8ffa967bc712"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; linewhite-heightspace: 19pxpre-wrap;">From TEDx events grassroots groups to community celebrations, fashion shows to multi-million dollar fundraising campaignsglobal agencies, Ben creates events and experiences that connect brings diverse networks together to create shared valueengage in projects that bridge cultural divides. He &nbsp;In recent years, Ben has worked with Greenville Forward</span>[http://www.futurepartners.is <span style="color: rgb(34, TEDxGreenville34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Future Partners</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and is </span>[http://www.projectmlab.com <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Project M</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to foster sustainable development in the founding curator rural South, and has launched </span>[http://104good.com/ <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10-4 Good City</span>]<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a network of TEDxFurmanUsocial entrepreneurs that share resources, connections and ideas across cities. Ben is currently working has also worked with the TED Breaker Project’s global team </span>[http://www.instituteforchildsuccess.org/ <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Institute of Child Success</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to explore “The Future ways that human centered design can be used to improve the health and wellbeing of Stuff” at children and families in the Stanford dearly childhood system. In recent months, Ben was featured in </span>[http://www.schoolwhitehouse.gov/blog/2014/11/07/celebrating-campus-leaders-during-national-entrepreneurship-month <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">White House Office of Science & Technology</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blog, </span>[http://designgood.com/ben-riddle/ <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Design Good<br/span>]&#x5Bnbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline;white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">and </span>[http://www.fastcompany.com/3033263/innovation-agents/how-to-say-no-to-a-stanford-admission <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Fast Company</span>]&#x5Bnbsp;File<span style="vertical-align:Headshotbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for his efforts to drive place-based change in the Southeast.jpg|thumb&#x5D</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-89f4c759-d11c-10de-f132-8ffa967bc712"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;&#x5Dwhite-space: pre-wrap; '''">Over the course of his academic career, Ben Riddle''' University Innovation Fellowhas studied Sustainable Development at </span>[http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/ <span style="color: rgb(34, 34,34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freie Universitat Berlin</span>]&nbsp;&#x5B<span style="vertical-align: baseline;&#x5Bwhite-space: pre-wrap;">and Furman University, where he serves as a Duke Scholar and Research Fellow at the </span>[http://www.furman.edu|Furman University&#x5D/academics/shicenter/Pages/default.aspx <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&#x5Dwhite-space: pre-wrap; Design Maverick, &#x5B">Shi Center for Sustainabilit</span>]<span style="vertical-align: baseline;&#x5Bwhite-space: pre-wrap;www">y.futurepartnersBen is currently active in Greenvile, South Carolina, where he is a project facilitator for Victory Village, a mixed-income community that is built upon service, stewardship and sustainability.is</span></span></span></span><div></div>= Related Links = [[Furman on FIRE: Fueling Innovation, Research & Entrepreneurship|Future Partners&#x5D<span style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(84, 81, 75); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;&#x5Dfont-size: small;<br/">Furman on FIRE<br/span>]] <br/span style="color: rgb(84, 81, 75); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;">[[Furman University|Furman University]]<br/span> '''[[Ben Riddle]]''' '''[[Tyler Higgins]]''' '''[[Sam Kristen Can]]''' '''[[Kudakwashe Chinyama]]''' '''[[Anna Peterson]]''' [[Category:Student Contributors|b]][[Category:Student Contributors]]