Leo Mancini

Award Year:

2011 – 2012

College:

School of Visual Arts

Biography

Leo Mancini is a designer, engineer, and artist. He believes design and technology should encourage community, equal opportunity, and social progress. Most recently, he’s been designing and prototyping products at Propel to help people with limited income access government benefits. Before that, Leo was part of design teams at Cash App, Square, Indeed, Code for America, and Facebook. He also prototypes electronics projects with friends as a part of FCC Studio
GCSF gave me one of my first opportunities to speak about design in front of an audience, which was great practice for public speaking and professional meetings in the future. I’m really grateful for GCSF’s support and guidance early in my career!