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Lisa is a Professor in the Communication Design program at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she has taught since the year 2000. From 2000-2018 she served as the coordinator of Communication Design.

Prior to MSU Denver Lisa taught coursework at the University of New Mexico and the Rhode Island School of Design. From 2011 – 2013 she contributed to the Public Interest Design Training Program through the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Office of Executive Education as well as the Public Interest Design Institutes. Her pedagogical specialty is centered on community-based design. Through this framework she strives to engage students and communities in the challenges of designing for diverse audiences not traditionally served by design. While she has taught coursework across the curriculum, her emphasis is on design that addresses underserved people, places and problems. This focus has allowed her research to support related inquiry in the classroom. It is through the combination of design teaching, research, and practice that she is able to bring relevance and a timely awareness of the culture of design and all its possibilities to her students.