Workshop with Henry Holtzman. Shortly after the launch of the Design By Numbers project to teach artists and designers how to code, he helped to accelerate the Scratch language project in an NSF proposal with outreach across the digital divide. He resigned from MIT in 2008 to become the President of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), just as the global financial crisis of 2007-09 took hold. In 2011, RISD's faculty majority passed a vote of no confidence in Maeda. He survived the vote, and subsequently led RISD to be recognized by the business community as number one in the world while shepherding the national STEAM movement, feeling that "art and design are poised to transform our economy in the 21st century like science and technology did in the last century." For his work in advancing STEAM education, Maeda was recognized with a Tribeca Film Festival Disruptor Award and the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts & Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy Center. Maeda resigned from his RISD presidency at the end of 2013 and joined KPCB. Around the same time he also joined eBay's Design Advisory Board as chairman. In 2014 and 2015, he guest curated and hosted PopTech: REBELLION and PopTech: HYBRID. In 2015 he published his first Design In Tech Report to connect the investing world with the world of design and technology. A 2nd Design in Tech Report was published in 2016 and later in 2017, a 3rd Design In Tech Report was published. From 2019 until 2020, he was an Executive Vice President and Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient where he helped businesses bridge strategy and engineering with computational design. Awards In 1999, he was named one of the 21 most important people in the 21st century by Esquire. In 2001, he received the National Design Award for Communication Design in the United States and Japan's Mainichi Design Prize. In 2009, he was inducted into the New York Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame, and he received the AIGA Medal in 2010. He is a trustee of the Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum. Honorary doctorates awarded by Drexel University (2017), Simon Fraser University (2014), Maryland Institute College of Arts (2003). Personal life Maeda is married to Kris Maeda and together they have five daughters. Kris and John Maeda worked together on the design consultancy, MAEDASTUDIO. Bibliography Redesigning Leadership (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life),