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<span style="font-size:medium;">Benjamin Riddle<br/>[[File:HeadshotWww.furman.jpgedu|thumbFurman University]] Innovation Fellow<br/>Design Maverick, [[Www.futurepartners.is|Headshot.jpgFuture Partners]]</span>

Benjamin Riddle<brspan style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">University Innovation Fellow,</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ben works with student leaders across the United States to equip undergraduates with tools and skills needed to compete in the economy of the 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 create new initiatives that use design thinking as a tool for engaged learning and creative problem solving. Recently, Ben has represented the Furman and the Fellows at the </span>[[Wwwhttp://dschool.furmanstanford.edu|Furman University/ <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">d.school</span>]] Innovation Fellow<brspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the </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 Design MaverickThinking</span>]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the </span>[http://continuinged.uml.edu/deshpande/ <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deshpande Symposium</span>]&nbsp;<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 </span>[Wwwhttp://www.futurepartnersnae.is|Future Partners]edu/ <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Academy of Engineering</span>]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span>

<brspan 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; white-space: pre-wrap;">From grassroots groups to global agencies, Ben brings diverse networks together to engage in projects that bridge cultural divides. &nbsp;In recent years, Ben has worked with </span>[http://www.futurepartners.is <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 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 <br/span>[http://www.projectmlab.com <span style="color: rgb(8434, 8134, 7534); fonttext-familydecoration: 'Droid Sans'underline; fontvertical-sizealign: 13pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap; line">Project M</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-heightalign: 1.38baseline; backgroundwhite-colorspace: transparentpre-wrap;">Benjamin Riddle to foster sustainable development in the rural South, and has been a University Innovation Fellow at Furman University since April 2014launched </span>[http://104good. As 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 designer and network of social impact strategistentrepreneurs that share resources, connections and ideas across cities. Ben works across sectors has also worked with the </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 unlock explore ways that human ingenuitycentered design can be used to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families in the early childhood system. In recent months, Ben is currently immersed was featured in systems </span>[http://www.whitehouse.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 learning 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</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">and education</span>[http://www.fastcompany.com/3033263/innovation-agents/how-to-say-no-to-a-stanford-admission <span style="color: rgb(17, where he’s creating spaces 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Fast Company</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for stakeholders his efforts to catalyze and sustain positive drive place-based changein the Southeast.</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; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the course of his academic career, Ben has studied Sustainable Development at </span>[http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/ <span style="color: rgb(8434, 8134, 7534); fonttext-familydecoration: 'Droid Sans'underline; fontvertical-sizealign: 13pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background">Freie Universitat Berlin</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-colorspace: transparentpre-wrap;">As a and Furman University Innovation Fellow, Ben works with student leaders across the United States to equip undergraduates with tools where he serves as a Duke Scholar and skills needed to compete in Research Fellow at the economy of the future</span>[http://www.furman.edu/academics/shicenter/Pages/default. Through his work and studies at Furman Universityaspx <span style="color: rgb(34, Ben partners with students34, faculty, administrators and alumni to create new initiatives that use design thinking as a strategy 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shi Center for engaged learningSustainabilit</span>]<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y. As a freshman, Ben brought Cannon Designis currently active in Greenvile, the Associated Colleges of the South and two academic departments together to create Design Carolina, where he is a project facilitator for Social Change – an interdisciplinary course that introduces design thinking as Victory Village, a tool for mixed-income community problem solving. Recentlythat is built upon service, Ben has represented the Furman stewardship and the Fellows at the Stanford d.school, the HPI School of Design Thinking’s d.confestival, the Deshpande Symposium on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education and at the National Academy of Sciencessustainability.</span></span></span></span><div></div>= Related Links =

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