Alamance Reads and Power+Place Collaborative host intergenerational conversations on leadership and changemaking April 15

Danielle Lake

Director of Design Thinking and Associate Professor of Human Service Studies

Danielle Lake joined the Elon community in 2019. With a Ph.D. in Philosophy, her teaching and scholarship interests bridge Design Thinking and wicked problems research with feminist pragmatism and the scholarship of teaching and learning. As the former coordinator of an Accelerated Leadership Program, research lead… Read More

Articles by Danielle Lake

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Alamance Reads and Power+Place Collaborative host intergenerational conversations on leadership and changemaking April 15

March 30, 2026

The Elon and Alamance community are invited to join the Power+Place Collaborative dialogue luncheon featuring themes of leadership, resistance, and advocacy this April 15

The Center for Design Thinking launches Forging Fridays series

January 12, 2026

The Center for Design Thinking will bring five renowned relational designers to Design Forge 2026 through "Forging Fridays," an open access series on the latest relational design thinking strategies.

Danielle Lake gives keynote talk at the International Conference on Jane Addams

October 1, 2025

��޹��Ʒ's Director of Design Thinking Danielle Lake supports International Day of Peace via a keynote address and design thinking workshop for international changemakers.

Where stories take root: Harvesting the history of Alamance County

June 13, 2025

Power+Place Collaborative's History Harvest collects and digitizes archives of the community.

The Center for Design Thinking presents at the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community

May 14, 2025

Students and staff from ��޹��Ʒ's Center for Design Thinking presented three unique workshops for students, faculty and community partners from across Dayton, Ohio.

President Emeritus Leo Lambert interviews Danielle Lake and Aaron Chan ’26 for “Cultivating Mentoring Constellations”

May 8, 2025

��޹��Ʒ’s Mentoring Constellations Design Thinking workshop employs research-based strategies to help students build meaningful connections across their communities.

Design Forge 2025 sparks joy, community, and ideas for forging better worlds

April 22, 2025

Relational Design for Living and Learning featured at Design Forge 2025!

Eugene Korsunskiy to present ‘Little Book of Joy’ at the Design Forge 2025

March 7, 2025

Design Forge keynote speaker and editor of the Little Book of Joy set to present “Together by Design: Joy, Community, & Forging Better Worlds.”

Center for Design Thinking launches AI workshop with Elon’s AI Initiative

February 25, 2025

In this new cross-university collaboration, students explore when, and how, to use AI as a partner inside and outside of the classroom.

The Center for Design Thinking presents at PACE Conference on design thinking strategies for cultivating engaged learning

February 14, 2025

Information collected over four years at the Center initiates conversations on the power of design thinking