Faculty Stories

Your faculty mentors work at the forefront of their fields, enabling them to introduce you to current creative practice and thought. Explore their work and the ways Parsons’ collaborative courses and projects give you real-world experience.

    Fashion Design (BFA)
    Lucia Cuba: Activating Your Creativity for Social Good

    Lucia Cuba: Activating Your Creativity for Social Good

    Lucia Cuba (Assistant Professor of Fashion Design, Parsons School of Design) discusses her belief in developing a curriculum that not only promotes awareness of social issues but inspires action.

    Interior Design (MFA)
    Jonsara Ruth and Alison Mears

    Jonsara Ruth and Alison Mears

    Jonsara Ruth (Design Director and Co-founder, Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design) and Alison Mears (Director and Co-founder, Healthy Materials Lab)

    Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management (MS)
    Ana Baptista

    Ana Baptista

    Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Chair of MS Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, Milano School of Management, Policy, and Environment

    Lighting Design (MFA), Architecture (M.Arch), Architecture (M.Arch) / Lighting Design (MFA)
    Habitat for Humanity: Empower a House

    Habitat for Humanity: Empower a House

    A national competition challenged students from Parsons and across the university to design and construct a sustainable solar-powered home. The result was Empowerhouse, an award-winning eco-friendly, affordable home developed with Habitat for Humanity D.C.

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