After 31 years on the faculty of Georgia Tech, Bonnie Ferri is a wealth of institutional knowledge about how the university has evolved to keep pace in an era of dizzying technological change. Now the Vice Provost of Graduate Education and Faculty Development, Ferri was Tech’s first female PhD graduate in electrical engineering and the first female faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). She is a celebrated innovator who pioneered mobile hands-on learning and inexpensive portable experiments in ECE courses—advances earned her both the prestigious IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award and Regent’s Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Her keen foresight made her the ideal candidate to serve as co-chair of the Commission on Creating the Next in Education. Along with more than 50 faculty, staff and students, she helped guide the Institute-wide effort to envision the Georgia Tech of 2040.