Learning is a lifelong pursuit. I thrive on curiosity and love nurturing it in others.
Current Courses
Intro to Design Thinking
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
3-day course | visit site for enrollment in upcoming sessions
Course description: Learn how to leverage empathetic research, ideation and prototyping to tackle even the hardest business challenges. Collaborate with industry peers to explore creative approaches to problem solving. Put into practice, the foundations of the human-centered design methodology with a real-world challenge.
Data Visualization:
Storytelling And Sensemaking
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
3-day course | visit site for enrollment in upcoming sessions
Course description: Learn to create strong visualizations using data to increase comprehension, retention and action. Develop design concepts and techniques to make your presentations more persuasive. Discover new opportunities to communicate critical information by incorporating the power of sensemaking to structure effective visualizations and the engagement of storytelling to ensure they resonate.
Graphic Design Theory
Temple University Tyler School of Art and Thomas Jefferson University
BFA/MFA/BGD
Course description: This cross-listed, writing-intensive course explores contemporary design theories and discourse. It examines the theoretical aspects of artifacts through their making, reading and dissemination. A study of theorists and movements, in the broader context of global design disciplines, will inform the analytical review of the visual communication design discipline. Emphasis will be placed on forming and articulating a critical and individual point-of-view (POV) in discussions and writing.
Stephen Andreano, Eva Baird Floyd, Megan Garrity, Alissa Leigel, Iman Morrisey, Eli Steiker-Ginzberg
Featured Student Work
Frankly | Health Communication Design
Frankly—a system for proactive diagnosis, patient advocacy and the prevention of Lyme disease.
Jefferson HCMD students participated in Coforma’s Health + Lyme Disease program, supporting the Lymex Innovation Accelerator—a partnership with the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation. They developed Frankie (spokesfrog) and the Frankly system including an extensive web platform with a symptom tracker, an awareness campaign and a product line. Fun fact: frogs are natural predators of ticks.
Institutions
Izmir Economi Universitesi (BFA)
Johns Hopkins University (Exec Ed)
MICA (BFA, MFA)
NC State University (BFA, MFA)
Seton Hall (BA)
Temple University (BFA, MFA)
Thomas Jefferson University (BGD, MS)
University of Pennsylvania (BA, MFA, MArch)