User:Hs501iw/Zoe Stanton

Zoë Stanton is one of the co-founders and directors at Uscreates. She completed her bachelors’ degree at Goldsmith’s College.

Zoë founded Uscreates together with Mary Cook in 2005. Uscreates, an award winning social change agency, focuses on developing effective ways to respond to social challenges through collaboration with the public and public sector organisations. Previous projects include raising cancer awareness and early detection, increasing Chlamydia screening rates and the development of interventions to reduce the ‘inappropriate’ use of A&E.

Zoë studied design at Goldsmiths College. It was at Goldsmiths that Zoë met Mary Rose Cook, fellow Founding Director of Uscreates. They developed the business idea for Uscreates and in 2006 were awarded business funding and coaching as part of NESTA’s Creative Pioneer Programme. Zoë is now a Fellow of the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Goldsmith College.

Before founding Uscreates, Zoë worked as a designer and project manager in both the private and public sector, which included working in the television industry, retail design, design research and high profile events management. Zoë was a founding member of the design collective Us&Us and this collaborative work motivated her to initiate Uscreates with fellow member Mary Rose Cook.

Zoë was named as a Future 100 Young Social Entrepreneur during Global Entrepreneurship Week, as well as one of the UK’s future 500 ‘movers and shakers’ by the Observer and Courvoisier and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Zoë is a Senior Producer on the Design Council’s Design of the Times (Dott ) programme.