Much of Lisa's teaching and research is built around efforts to partner students with Chicago-area nonprofit organizations, to together develop and deploy new media projects. During academic year 2011-2012, Lisa Dush initiated a research project designed to explore how personal, digital stories can prompt social action. Dr. Dush and her students partnered with Chicago International Charter School (CICS) and created a Digital Stories in Organizations Workshop in which students taught school parents and teachers how to produce digital stories that express their values about and priorities for education.