Krystal Persaud

Krystal Persaud is a product designer based out of New York City and the founder of Grouphug. Persaud is obsessed with developing products that fall in the intersection of education, technology, and society—anything else is not worth designing. She's a founding member and former Senior Director of Product Design at littleBits. She's a graduate of the Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design as well as an adjunct instructor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the School of Visual Arts. She's spoken at numerous events including the annual AIGA Design Conference, IDSA's International Design Conference, FIT's Women and Technology Symposium, MIT's Sandbox Conference, and Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival.