A First Year Coordinator and Art, Media, and Technology faculty member, Francesca Bonesio likes to emphasize the ability to adapt in her classroom. No matter what industry or discipline students go on to pursue, if they can’t keep up with rapidly evolving industries and technologies, they can’t thrive as creative leaders. “What’s really fantastic about this current moment is that it’s very challenging because we need to adapt all the time,” says Bonesio. “At the same time, it's very inspiring.”

Emmanuel Cohen’s diverse background — which ranges from acting and theater studies to performance and photography — informs his pedagogy in the classroom. No matter what the course subject, he asks students to look beyond the constraints of their fields and think critically about the act of creation itself — an exercise essential to anyone seeking to make work with social or cultural impact.

For years, artist, designer, and educator Bridget O’Rourke has held academic positions at Parsons Paris in which she has helped the school become the robust interdisciplinary center it is today.

Since the beginning of her academic pathway, Leyla Neri, director of the BFA Fashion Design and the new MFA Fashion Design and the Arts program at Parsons Paris, has focused her efforts on building bridges between fashion design, art practices, and social science.

BBA Strategic Design and Management program director Anna Krutiy brought to the Parsons Paris community years of experience working at the center of Paris’ luxury fashion industry.

Marco Pecorari, current director of the MA Fashion Studies program at Parsons Paris, has always explored new ways to connect critical theory to the fashion industry.