Nandini Ranganathan, PhD

curriculum designer

Education Entrepreneur, Mathematician, Futurist, and Curriculum Designer. Nandini is the Founder of CETI (the Creative and Emergent Technology Institute)  an integrated model for advanced/professional education, research, practice, and community engagement in creative and emergent technology and design. Formerly a professor of mathematics at UT Austin and Reed College, Nandini moved to the Pacific Northwest College of Art to create Make+Think+Code a community- and technology-focused lab at the intersection of art, science, technology, and society.  Nandini has a PhD. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and an A.B. in Mathematics from Wellesley College. Her interests and work include innovative curriculum and program design, and training educators and leaders in creating interdisciplinary project-based learning experiences to inspire imaginative inventions and solutions to major social, environmental, and technological challenges. Nandini has designed curriculum to train k-12 educators in Texas, Oregon, and Washington. She served on the Advisory and Planning Committee  for SW-T.I.M.E. (the Southwest Washington partner of the Transition Mathematics Project) with Clark College and WSU Vancouver and helped design curriculum that focussed on applications of mathematics in the world to help students successfully prepare for college STEM fields and careers; worked on a curriculum for a certificate in Middle School Mathematics Education; created collaborations with high schools, community colleges and state schools; helped develop college readiness standards for Washington; worked with Washington MESA to increase STEM opportunities for a more diverse group of students.