Virginia San Fratello

Virginia San Fratello is an educator, designer, and creative technologist. She is the Chair of the Department of Design at San Jose State University in Silicon Valley and an International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Educator of the Year recipient. She is a design activist, author, and thought leader within the fields of additive manufacturing, architecture, interior, and product design. She has served in the role of Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Arkansas, Pratt University, and The University of Queensland. In 2014, her creative practice, Rael San Fratello, was named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League of New York, one of the most coveted awards in North American architecture. In 2016, Rael San Fratello was also awarded the Digital Practice Award of Excellence by the The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). In 2020, Rael San Fratello received an Art + Technology Award from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In 2020, the Pink Borderwall Teeter Totters installed on the border between the USA and Mexico, designed by Rael and San Fratello, was awarded the Beasley Design of the Year Award.