Elena Vasquez
Principal Designer, Systems
Former VP Design at Figma, Apple HIG alumna, and 18-year practitioner of systems thinking in product design.
Our Instructors
The people
who set the standard.
Every LYCEUM instructor is someone who has operated at the highest level of their discipline — not someone who studies it. That distinction is the foundation of everything we teach.
Marcus Chen
Staff Engineer, Infrastructure
Ex-Google SRE, open-source author, and the engineer who makes distributed systems feel inevitable rather than mysterious.
Diana Osei
Director of Product, B2B
Former CPO at Notion, Stripe product veteran, and the strategist who turned user insight into 20× growth.
James Nakamura
Cinematographer & Director
Sundance-winning DP, Netflix series cinematographer, and the teacher who explains light before he ever touches a camera.
Sarah Oduya
Author & Writing Coach
NYT bestselling author, MacArthur Fellow, and the writing teacher who starts with a single sentence and builds from there.
Priya Mehta
Executive Coach & Leadership Strategist
Former Palantir COO, Fortune 100 advisor, and the coach who turns raw leadership instinct into repeatable, teachable craft.