Ana Pinto da Silva

Head, School of Design

Bio

Pinto da Silva joins CFA from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she served as director of UW’s Masters in Human-Computer Interaction and Design program. At the University of Washington, Pinto da Silva worked with a talented team of staff, faculty and industry educators, providing strategic program leadership, supporting academic and career advising, admissions assistance and curriculum development, and providing key oversight the for the focus of and launch of student capstone projects.

Pinto da Silva earned her bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and her master’s degree in design studies from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. An accomplished designer, technologist, educator and public speaker, Pinto da Silva is committed to advancing the role designers, engineers and researchers play in the development of future-defining technology innovation centered on equity, inclusion and innovation.

Pinto da Silva is dedicated to community service. Inspired by the power of leadership and learnership through community, she is the founder of the Seattle Pecha Kucha speaker series, the founding co-chair of the Harvard GSD’s Global Design Impact initiative, and serves on numerous boards and committees including the Harvard GSD MDE program, MOHAI, Leadership Tomorrow and the Nehemiah Initiative.