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.
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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.
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)
Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo: Transforming Society Through Systems Approaches
Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Associate Professor of Integrated Design; Dean, School of Design Strategies; and Director, DEED Research Labs
Ana Baptista
Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Chair of MS Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, Milano School of Management, Policy, and Environment
Marisa Morán Jahn: Crossing Disciplines to Create Change
Morán Jahn, an interdisciplinary artist-activist and the new director of Parsons’ BFA Integrated Design program, employs creativity to build community resilience.
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.
