Tessa Forshaw

Tessa is an advance doctoral student and presidential scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. There, she is a researcher within the Next Level Lab at Project Zero, focusing on the development of cognitive and creative skills needed for the future of work. She leverages design based research practices and natural language processing methods. 

Outside of research, Tessa teaches topics in design thinking and creativity at the Harvard University Division of Continuing Education, where she is teaching the first for credit class at the Harvard Innovation Lab. 

Prior to Harvard, Tessa was on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Engineering Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the “d.school”) and worked at Accenture and the IDEO CoLab.