A native of Texas, René Graham is a licensed architect and holds a Master in Architecture from Rice University. Before entering the world of product design, beauty-tech, and entrepreneurship founding Renzoe Box, Graham achieved significant and diverse experience in architectural practice and real estate development.Graham is the founder of Renzoe Box, a beauty tech platform that utilizes data science & innovative packaging to solve for makeup customization & waste. She is the co-founder of LaurelHouse Studio, a boutique architecture practice and design studio based in Bryan, Texas. She is also the co-founder of BCS Modern, a real estate development company focused on design-driven community-based development in Downtown Bryan, Texas. Combined, LaurelHouse + BCSModern have designed/developed over $65m in property ranging from small scale residential renovations to multi-story mixed-use commercial facilities.Graham has taught architecture, design & entrepreneurship at two major universities in Texas. She has received grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, has been featured on national TV, won the international Good Design Award®, received the 2022 Mayor's Impact Award, finalist for SXSW 2020 Pitch, is a 2020 Tory Burch Fellow & 2021 Ladies Who Launch Fellow, has raised funding from a16z, and holds national & international patents & trademarks for Renzoe Box®. She has served as a design critic at Harvard University, SciArc, Syracuse University, Rice University, Texas Tech, Louisiana State, University of Texas, and Texas A&M University. In addition to leading Renzoe Box, LaurelHouse Studio, and BCS Modern, Graham has served as Board Member of the Downtown Bryan Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to arts, culture & historic preservation of a small Texas downtown district. She has held advisory and committee roles for public & private organizations including the City of Bryan, Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, Leadership Brazos, Startup Aggieland, the Texas Bighorn Society, and the National Science Foundation. Of all her roles Graham’s favorite has been serving as an educator at The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University. Considering herself a “design thinker across many scales,” it is at these institutions where she enjoys collaborating with students to help them succeed. In her spare time she enjoys attending the symphony, exploring new cities, hiking Town Lake in Austin, building wildlife guzzlers in the west Texas desert mountains, and snuggling with her nieces & nephew.