Hilary Greenbaum is the Director of Graphic Design and Brand Creative for the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since 2012, she has managed the development of the museum’s visual identity across environmental, digital, and print platforms. Prior to her current position, she served as a staff designer and design columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Her work has been recognized by D&AD, London’s Design Museum, the BRNO Biennial, the Art Directors Club, and AIGA among others. Hilary holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

Larissa Marquez operates at the intersection of creativity and business transformation. As Managing Director of Rethink Design, she leads cross-functional teams that connect design, strategy, and operations—building the infrastructure that allows creativity to scale.

With more than a decade of leadership experience, Larissa has guided complex global projects for cultural and luxury clients, translating creative ambition into sustainable growth. She’s recognized for developing high-performing teams, implementing new operational models, and designing systems where creative excellence can thrive. Prior to Rethink, she held senior positions at Gretel and Pentagram.

Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, and a “woman of influence” by Success Magazine, Debbie Millman has built a remarkable career at the intersection of design, storytelling, and cultural commentary. Debbie is the founder and host of Design Matters, one of the first and longest-running podcasts in the world. Over the past two decades, she has interviewed more than 700 of the world’s most creative thinkers and makers. The show has earned a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, multiple Webby awards and Ambie nominations, and numerous accolades from Apple Podcasts, which named the show one of their “All-Time Favorites” three times. Design Matters has also won three Communicator Awards, a Signal Award, three awards from The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts and the OnAir Fest Audio Vanguard award. Design Matters has been listed on over 100 “Best Podcasts” lists, including one of the best podcasts in the world by Business Insider and Vanity Fair.

Debbie is the author of eight books, including three collections of interviews that have extended the ethos and editorial vision of Design Matters to the printed page: How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer, Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits and Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People. Why Design Matters has won a Graphis award and an iF award. Her most recent book, Love Letter to a Garden was published in 2025.

Debbie is the co-owner and Editorial Director of PrintMag.com, where she and her partners acquired the publication from bankruptcy and secured the legacy of the brand’s 80 year history and archives. She and her wife, New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay acquired the online literary magazine, TheRumpus.net in 2025.

In 2010, Millman co-founded the first graduate program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Now in its 16th year, the program has earned international acclaim, with student work spanning collaborations with The Museum of Modern Arts, the Lewis Latimer Museum, the Joyful Heart Foundation, Kholsa Ventures, the television show Billions, Sundance Institute and Chobani, among many others.

For two decades, Millman was President of Sterling Brands, where she helped grow the firm from a 15-person boutique into a global consultancy. She played a pivotal role in its 2008 acquisition by Omnicom and led major branding initiatives for Burger King, Hershey’s, Haagen-Dazs, Tropicana, Star Wars, Gillette, and the No More campaign to end domestic violence.

A prolific writer and illustrator, Debbie’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Print Magazine, Baffler Magazine, Afar Magazine and Fast Company. She is the author of two books of illustrated essays: Look Both Ways and Self-Portrait As Your Traitor; the latter of which has been awarded a Gold Mobius, a Print Typography Award, and a medal from the Art Directors Club. Her artwork has been exhibited in the Boston Biennale, Chicago Design Museum, Anderson University, School of Visual Arts, Long Island University, The Wolfsonion Museum, the Museum of Broadway, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art. She has been critic-in-residence at Cranbrook University, Old Dominion University, Notre Dame University, the State University of New York at Oswego, and has conducted visual storytelling workshops all over the world. A past president of AIGA (one of only five women to serve in the role in its 100-year history), Millman received the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. She is a frequent keynote speaker and has delivered talks at TED (one of the Top 10 most popular TED Talks of 2020), Aspen Ideas Festival, Inbound, Design Indaba, Web Summit, and universities and design festivals around the world. She has been a juror for global competitions including Cannes Lions, The Clio’s, the One Club, D&AD awards, ASME, the Webby’s, the Ambies, the Signal Awards and many more.

In 2022, Harvard Business School introduced a case study on Debbie. In 2024, she was appointed as an Executive Fellow at HBS and is currently working on the development of a new course for second year students. Debbie is currently on the board of Law & Order SVU actor and activist Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart Foundation, and is working to eradicate sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, image-based abuse and the rape-kit backlog. She is also on Canva’s design advisory board, and serves on the boards of Letterform Archive, The Art Director’s Club and The Center for California Literature.

Some of her favorite creative collaborations include designing beach towels for One Kings Lane, a limited edition notebook with Baron Fig, playing cards for Deckstarter, a calendar with Seth Godin for McNeal publishing, and pajamas for Pixie Home. Her most recent commissions include the design and illustration of a permanent installation at the Broadway Museum in New York City and the concept and design of the vault plate aboard NASA’s Clipper mission to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. The Clipper will reach its destination in 2028.

Debbie lives in Manhattan and Los Angeles with her beautiful wife, two lovable cats and a very charismatic dog.

Can Misirlioglu is an Executive Creative Director with more than two decades of experience building brands through design, creative leadership, and a deeply multidisciplinary approach. His work has focused on shaping identity systems, creative platforms, and brand worlds that bring clarity, distinction, and momentum to organizations in motion.

Most recently, Can was Head of Design and Craft at Decoded, where he led a multidisciplinary creative team and established the agency’s brand design discipline. Before that, he served as Group Creative Director of Studio6 at Havas, where he helped redefine the design-driven content studio and led award-winning work for Republic Records, Capitol, and Sony Legacy, recognized by D&AD and Cannes Lions.

He previously spent ten years at R/GA, where his design-driven work for Nike helped lay the foundation for what would become R/GA Studios. Can holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.

Matty Woodward is an Emmy-nominated creative leader driving innovation at the intersection of design, storytelling, and new technologies. He partners with global brands to reimagine experiences, unlock new opportunities, and solve complex challenges through design.

He’s a hands-on, AI-native creator with an obsession for redefining what it means to be a designer today. With a break-it-to-fix-it mentality, Matty challenges conventions in pursuit of meaningful change—an ethos reflected in his 30+ award nominations and wins.

A true multi-hyphenate, Matty cut his teeth designing for fashion and lifestyle brands, then stepped into entrepreneurship to launch culture-defining CPG brands. Today, he leads design and experience teams in New York for the world’s top-tier agencies. He’s addicted to the craft and driven to move at light-speed in today’s demanding digital landscape, combining sharp strategy with measurable impact for the world's biggest brands. Notable collaborations include Adobe, PayPal, Venmo, Moncler, Samsung, American Express, Nike, and Google.

Piotr Woronkowicz is an industrial designer and partner at Pentagram. In 2025 he joined Pentagram's New York office as the office's first industrial design partner, leading projects spanning products, signage, furniture, and environments for clients including Dr. Jart+, Mastercard, Google, Tres Generations, Maker's Mark, and Bread Alone. His work has earned multiple awards including the Red Dot and Spark Award, and he has taught at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design.

Forest Young is a design leader and educator, currently serving as Global Design & AI Resident at Wolff Olins. Previously, he was Global Head of Brand at Rivian, which registered the 6th largest IPO in American stock market history. Forest was the first Chief Creative Officer at Wolff Olins—named Fast Company's Most Innovative Company for Design during his tenure—leading initiatives for the world's most influential companies and cultural institutions. He maintains Young Studio, a private atelier for dimensional projects with preeminent artists including Titus Kaphar, Tavares Strachan, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Forest is a Senior Critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art, where he is also a distinguished MFA alumnus and recipient of the Mark Whistler Prize. His work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Royal College of Art, and Yale University Art Gallery. He has received the Gold Design Lion at Cannes and the Art Directors Club Black Cube. He holds a BS in Human Development from Cornell University.