Ronald Rael is a designer, activist, trained architect, author, and Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture at the University of California Berkeley. He has served as Department Chair, Director of the Masters of Architecture program, and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Architecture, in the College of Environmental Design and the Department of Art Practice. He is both a Bakar and Hellman Fellow, and directs the printFARM Laboratory (print Facility for Architecture, Research and Materials). His research interests connect indigenous and traditional material practices to contemporary technologies and issues and he is a design activist, author, and thought leader within the topics of additive manufacturing, borderwall studies, and earthen architecture.

-Rael San Fratello