Interaction Design Faculty

Chamberlaine Beard
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
Marc Choi

Assistant Professor, Graphic Design

Marc Choi is a graphic designer, artist, and educator whose work examines the role of visual design and communication in the production of personal and collective identities and the identities of shared environments.

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Cheyanne Dwyer
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.
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Joey Enriquez

Professorial Lecturer, Fine Arts

Professorial Lecturer, Sculpture, Fine Arts
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Denise Grant
Denise Grant

Professorial Lecturer, Studio Arts Program

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

Lecturer, Graphic Design Program

Ms. Sohee Kim has contributed to brand value creation and management through environmental analysis for business growth, sophisticated brand strategy development and significant branding.
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Aasawari Kulkarni
Aasawari Kulkarni

Assistant Professor and Faculty Advisor, Graphic Design

Aasawari Kulkarni is a designer, educator, and writer, originally from India. By employing tools of language, poetry, and empathy, her work explores the intersection of human behaviour and culture with design.
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Lauren Maffeo
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.
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Jim Mole

Professorial Lecturer, New Media Photojournalism, Studio Arts Program

Jim Mole, a painter and sculptor by training, is a versatile, deeply knowledgeable Internet strategist and usability advocate with more than twenty-five years of experience in advertising, marketing, web design and development. Read More  


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Maria del Carmen Montoya

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

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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Hyung Park

Adjunct Professor, Graphic Design Program

Mr. Park has been a designer and an educator. His professional practice specializes in strategic branding and visual communication.

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Kevin Patton
Kevin Patton

Interim Program Head of Design; Assistant Professor; Faculty Advisor (undergraduate and graduate), 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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Sam Shelton
Sam Shelton

Assistant Professor, Graphic Design

Sam earned a BFA in Communication Arts and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1985 and then together with two classmates, he founded KINETIK.
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Nidhi Singh Rathore
Nidhi Singh Rathore

Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Design

Nidhi Singh Rathore is a South Asian designer, researcher, and educator who explores the application of design methodologies to civic engagement and social innovation.
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Chloe Varelidi
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.
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