an editor in 2006, but rejoined as a contributing author in 2009.) Drenttel became publisher and editorial director in 2010. Design Observer has been nominated six times for best culture blog and twice for best writing in the (Webby Awards). By the end of 2011, the site had published over 4000 articles and essays by over 500 authors, with over 25,000 comments logged. Other professional and non-profit affiliations (1997-2011) Yale School of Management In 2007, Drenttel became a senior faculty fellow at the Yale School of Management where he taught design communications and thinking. In 2009, he additionally became a fellow of the school's Program on Social Enterprise . During this period, he used Rockefeller Foundation funding to start and support the Case Study Project in Design and Social Innovation, involving four large case studies: SELCO, Project Masiluleke, Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation, and Teach For All (forthcoming 2012). Teach for All Drenttel was vice president of communications and design of Teach For All, an international organization supporting educational social enterprises since 2008. Teach For All acts as a global network of independent social enterprises that are working to expand educational opportunity in their nations by enlisting their most promising future leaders in the effort. By 2012, Teach For All was operating in 23 countries. American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Drenttel was president emeritus of AIGA, the largest design organization in the U.S. He led the organization as president from 1994 to 1996, through a period of significant change, including the opening of a new national headquarters in New York City, the appointment of a new executive director, new financial controls, the launch of the organization's first capital campaign, and program coordination with 52 regional chapters. As president emeritus, Drenttel provided ongoing strategic and longterm planning consultation. In 2005, Drenttel assumed the role of national task force director for disaster relief for designers after the destruction of the Gulf States by hurricanes. In 2006, Drenttel initiated the Winterhouse Writing Awards, a national prize for innovation in design writing and criticism. He launched the Polling Place Photo Project, a national project in collaboration AIGA, to photograph American polling places on election days as a part of a citizen journalism initiative. In 2011, he supported the launch of the AIGA social change initiative, Design For Good. Drenttel also served as board member for the New York Chapter of AIGA from 1990