She leads Swinburne’s Masters of Design Program in Design Anthropology. She is also co-lead, with Dr. Norm Sheehan, of the research group on Indigenous Knowledge and Design Anthropology. She is passionate about civically-engaged design that creates politically informed and enfranchised people. She served as a director of AIGA’s Design for Democracy and is currently organizer of the U.S. National Design Policy Summit and Initiative.