Interaction Design Faculty

Chamberlaine Beard

Professional Lecturer, Interaction Design Program

Chamberlaine is a licensed Architect with over ten years of experience across a variety of sectors and scales, but with a heavy focus on adaptive reuse and repositioning projects. Read More  


Marc Choi

Assistant Professor, Graphic Design Program

Marc Choi is a graphic designer and design educator based in Washington, DC. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at the George Washington University.

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Cheyanne Dwyer

Adjunct Lecturer, Interaction Design Program

Cheyanne is the Chief Strategy Officer at Building Momentum. She has spent years traveling the world teaching warfighters technology to allow them to solve problems faster and cheaper. Read More  


Joey Enriquez

Professorial Lecturer, Sculpture, Fine Arts

Professorial Lecturer, Sculpture, Fine Arts

Denise Grant

Adjunct Lecturer, Interaction Design Program

Denise Grant is a designer that specializes in using the Human-Centered Design Process to produce valuable prototypes that focus on social change. Read More  


Lauren Maffeo

Adjunct Lecturer, Interaction Design Program

Lauren is an award-winning analyst and designer whose practice includes writing and executing research plans, leading user interviews, hosting usability testing, and creating assets like personas, process and journey maps, service blueprints, and content strategy/migration. Read More  


Maria del Carmen Montoya

Associate Professor Sculpture and Spatial Practices, M.F.A. in Fine Arts and Social Practice, Studio Arts Program

Maria del Carmen Montoya operates in the contested ground between art and social activism. Her primary medium is the communal process of making meaning. As an artist, she seeks ways to catalyze this natural social phenomenon with situations that insist on the power of human-scale intervention in the presumed inevitability of everyday life.
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Kevin Patton

Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Studies & Undergraduate Advisor, Interaction Design

Kevin Patton is a designer, musician, and creative technologist whose projects often include novel approaches to physical and computational interaction in expressive contexts. His research interests include expressive technological systems, automation and agency, visualization, musical thinking, and human centered design.
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Sheila Robinson

Program Administrator, Design Program

Sheila Robinson is the program administrator for the Corcoran School's central office and its Design program. She administers the day to day operations of these programs, working with faculty and other staff to plan events, schedule courses and help students succeed.
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Chloe Varelidi

Professional Lecturer, Interaction Design Program

Chloe Varelidi is an award-winning designer, educator and the founder of the DC based design & research studio Humans Who Play and the toy company Follies, Inc. She is a Halcyon Alumna, a graduate of the Design & Technology MFA program at Parsons, The New School for Design as well as an Eyebeam Art & Technology Resident Alumna. Read More