Education Design Lab Names Twelve Leaders in Reimagining the Role of Higher Education to Close Racial and Economic Opportunity Gaps Announcing the Education Design Lab's Designers in Residence, a diverse cohort of higher education leaders co-creating the future role of colleges in their communities News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- National nonprofit Education Design Lab today announced the selection of 12 higher education leaders to join the Lab's Designers in Residence program. Spanning a diverse cross-section of communities, institutional positionality, and lived experience and expertise, the Designers in Residence will lean on their collective expertise and work as a design team to co-create a roadmap for colleges to serve as regional change agents leading efforts to close economic and racial opportunity gaps.