25 RISD President Rosanne Somerson on the Next Iteration of Creative Education

Rosanne Somerson is an internationally exhibited furniture designer and President of Rhode Island School of Design. Somerson, a RISD alum, sees her parallel roles as a leader and practitioner as complementary parts of her life’s work, which she says began when she was a young girl charged with describing the world to her blind grandfather and “opening doors for people to see things differently.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices