Faculty
Faculty
At Parsons, our faculty of leading artists, designers, and scholars lead change both in the classroom and in their industries. They work directly with you, building your skills and professional networks. And they develop new ways to make online learning productive and classroom communities close. On our Faculty Stories page, you can explore faculty accomplishments and projects with students.
Faculty
Leala Abbott
Part-time Assistant ProfessorHala Abdel Malak
Assistant Professor of Strategic Design and ManagementSonya Abrego
Part-time Assistant ProfessorKimberly Ackert
Part-time Assistant ProfessorCassius Adair
Assistant Professor of Media StudiesBarbara Adams
Assistant Professor of Art, Design and Social JusticeJody Adams
Part-time LecturerAdegboyega Adefope
Assistant Professor of Interior DesignGolnar Adili
Part-time Assistant ProfessorJacques Agbobly
Part-time LecturerShana Agid
Associate Professor of Art, Media, and CommunicationsHasin Ahmed
Part-time LecturerOlubusola Ajayi
Part-time Assistant ProfessorScott Aker
Part-time Assistant ProfessorAarati Akkapeddi
Part-time LecturerSusan Cottle Alberto
Part-time Assistant ProfessorRhea Alexander
Associate Professor of Strategic Design and ManagementAlexandra Alguire
Part-Time FacultyYasi Alipour
Part-time LecturerKevin Allen
Part-time Associate Teaching ProfessorPeter Allen
Part-time Assistant ProfessorArly Amaya
Assistant Manager Sewing - Sewing and Soft ConstructionAdam Ames
Part-time Assistant ProfessorErica Ammann
Part-time Assistant Professor
Sareeta Amrute
Associate Professor of Strategic Design and ManagementKenneth Anand
Part-time LecturerVivette Ancona
Part-time Associate Teaching ProfessorNoel Anderson
Associate Professor of Fine ArtsPaul Andrejco
Part-Time Assistant ProfessorGregory Scott Angel
Part-time Assistant ProfessorHarun Arikan
Part-Time FacultySandra Arndt
Part-time Assistant ProfessorSara Arnell
Part-time Assistant ProfessorClarissa Arocena
Part-Time FacultyJaime Arredondo
Part-time Assistant ProfessorJury Artola
Part-time LecturerPeter Asaro
Professor of Media StudiesGabriel Asfour
Part-time Assistant ProfessorCat Ashley
Part-time LecturerDamian Ashton
Part-time LecturerMichael Assis
Part-time LecturerFaculty Events & News

CD Lecture Series: Aldo Juraidini Zorrilla
Aldo Juraidini Zorrilla is a designer working across disciplines, with a focus on product, strategy, and brand. In his work, he guides multi-disciplinary teams on projects mainly for the digital world. As a Design Director at Studio Rodrigo, he collaborates with designers and companies at every stage—from seed to scale—to help bring products to life through concept development, strategy, and visual design.aldo.designstudiorodrigo.comcinemarodrigo.com

Design and Technology Cloud Salon: Ayodamola Okunseinde
Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde (ayo) is a Nigerian-American artist, designer, anthropologist, and time-traveler living and working in New York. He studied Visual Arts and Philosophy at Rutgers University. He earned his BA. His works range from painting and speculative design to physically interactive works, wearable technology, and explorations of “Reclamation”. His residency participation includes ITP’s S.I.R., IDEO’s Fortnight, The Laundromat Project, Eyebeam, New INC, and Recess Assembly. He has exhibited and presented at the 11th Shanghai Biennale, Tribeca Storyscapes, EYEO Festival, Brooklyn Museum, MIT, Beyond the Cradle, and Afrotectopia, amongst others. He holds an MFA in Design and Technology and an MA in Anthropology from The New School. He is currently a PhD candidate in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research and serves as an Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design at Parsons School of Design.The Design and Technology programs at Parsons present Cloud Salon, a lecture series that invites artists, designers, technologists, and industry professionals to present projects and to engage in direct conversations with participants. This semester Cloud Salon will focus on featuring full-time faculty at The New School with a creative practice at the intersection of Design and Technology.

Every Contact Leaves a Trace: The Poetic Movements of Lynne Sachs
Every Contact Leaves a Trace: The Poetic Movements of Lynne Sachs Screening of Every Contact Leaves a Trace, Followed by a Talk and Q&A with the Filmmaker

In Conversation with Jenna Lyons
We are pleased to welcome Jenna Lyons (BFA Fashion Design ’90), Partner and Executive Creative Director at FundamentalCo and former President and Executive Creative Director of J.Crew Group, for a conversation with journalist, curator, and cultural critic David Colman. Widely recognized as the creative force behind J.Crew’s rise into one of the country’s most coveted fashion brands, Lyons has built a career at the intersection of fashion, design, and business. A seasoned entrepreneur and tastemaker, she has been named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People and called “The Woman Who Dresses America” by The New York Times. During the conversation, Lyons will reflect on her creative journey, her approach to building a distinctive brand, and her perspective on the evolving fashion industry.Doors open at 6:00 p.m.The program begins at 6:30 p.m.

BFA Photo Artist Talk: Sung Jin Park In Conversation With Alex Lin
Park Sung Jin is a photographer born in Seoul, South Korea. He studied painting and photography at Pratt Institute in New York. His series, Kid Nostalgia, which portrays outsider teenagers in his hometown of Seoul, was selected for the 2005 Art+Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers in New York and featured in the accompanying catalogue PEEK and Capricious#7. He won first prize in the Photographic Center Northwest’s 12th annual competition which was juried by Charlotte Cotton, then curator of photography at LACMA. His work has been presented internationally, including in Youth Code, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer for the 2012 Daegu Photo Biennale in South Korea; the third LaNuu Photography Festival in Rubí, Spain, in 2017; and Fluorescent Adolescent, a photobook exhibition at Fondazione Palazzo Magnani during the 2025 Fotograa Europea festival in Reggio Emilia, Italy. His practice has developed through portrait projects, publications, competitions, biennials, photography festivals, and exhibitions presented across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has published two monographs, Kid Nostalgia (2014) and Southern Breeze (2019), and is currently working on several projects in Bangkok and Seoul. Alex Lin is a New York–based graphic designer and founder of Studio Lin, with a particular focus on photobooks and cultural publishing. Studio Lin has designed numerous titles shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, including Sasha Phyars-Burgess’s Untitled, winner of the 2021 First PhotoBook Award, and Genesis Báez’s Blue Sun / Sol Azul, shortlisted in 2025. In 2023, Lin served on the international shortlist jury for the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards.
- Julia Sonnevend, Associate Professor of Sociology and Communications at Parsons, Named Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication
- Henry VI at The Public Theater Showcases Collaboration Between Parsons and Performing Arts
- Parsons Healthy Materials Lab Showcases Healthy, Climate-Positive Products and Ideas at International Contemporary Furniture Fair
- Daniel Jonas Roche, Parsons Faculty Member, Co-Writes New Book on Antifascist Architecture
- Arianna Deane, Parsons Faculty Member, Earns Recognition and Awards from Architecture Organizations with Firm A+A+A