"My work at H2L2 connects deep design craft with people quietly building movements that matter."
Patrick Yurick is the Chief Executive Officer of Hundred Hands Learning Lab (H2L2), a San Diego-based studio that treats design as a way to build movements, not just materials. He leads teams that help educators, organizers, and nonprofits turn complex ideas into visual stories, brands, and tools that feel as rigorous as they are inviting.
Before launching H2L2, Patrick spent nearly two decades at the intersection of classrooms and creative studios. He was a founding art and multimedia teacher at High Tech High Chula Vista, where projects like the Graphic Novel Project and the Imagine Mural showed how youth storytelling could reach conventions, communities, and public spaces. He later designed large-scale online courses and learning experiences for the High Tech High Graduate School of Education and for MIT, blending research, comics, and pedagogy to help people learn at global scale.
Along the way, he founded MakingComics.com, co-created the Podcation audio-drama incubator, and led PYD.Studio, a consultancy serving schools and social impact organizations. Across these roles, Patrick keeps returning to the same question: how can thoughtful design give people sharper language, braver stories, and clearer paths to change the systems they live in.
