LA500 2024: Karen Hofmann

Hofmann is the sixth president of ArtCenter College of Design, and the first woman in the role. She previously was ArtCenter Provost and served as chair of ArtCenter’s Product Design department. She began teaching at the college in 2002. She was given the Industrial Designers Society of America Education Award for her contributions to the field of industrial design education. Hofmann spent several years at Johnson Controls Automotive Systems Group in Advanced Design and Research and, for the last decade, has been teaching and consulting. She graduated from ArtCenter in 1997 with a B.S. in product design and has a B.A. in psychology from California State University – Northridge. -- Los Angeles Business Journal 

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