Design for America Leadership Studio 2018 Design for America will bring together a national network of social innovators for the 2018 DFA Summit, August 1 through August 5, 2018, at Northwestern University. The organization was founded in 2008 by School of Engineering students and faculty director, Liz Gerber in an effort to empower students to innovate solutions to problems in their community using human-centered design. In 2009 DFA student co-founders Mert Iseri, Yuri Malin