Macauley Kenney

Macauley Kenney, MIT MS '16 is a lecturer at MIT D-Lab, co-instructing the class Design for Scale. She is also a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Macauley is passionate about product design, user research, and social impact and her research has been featured in multiples news outlets, including Forbes and Engineering for Change. 

In addition to teaching at D-Lab and Sloan, Macauley is Entrepreneur in Residence at the MIT Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. A serial entrepreneur, she has specialized in scaling organizations in emerging markets, and has led operational systems for ventures in the U.S., Rwanda, and Uganda. She is the former COO of SurgiBox, where she oversaw the launch of the first ultraportable operating room, a 2023 Time Design of the Year, taking the product through the design for manufacturing process and into use on the battlefield in Ukraine. 
 
Macauley is an accomplished public speaker, winning the MIT Can Talk competition, and the North American Present Around the World Competition. She frequently serves as a competition judge, and coaches public speaking with an emphasis on stage presence and narrative building.