She received a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, and a masters in industrial design from the Rhode Island School of Design. The focus of her work has been in the emerging hybrid practice at the intersection of industrial and interaction design—or the mediation between people, stuff, and technology. She is interested in design as a way of thinking and has a great interest in all design disciplines. She has focused on building a multidisciplinary approach to design with work experience in industrial design, interaction design, engineering, and business at Ford Motor Company, amazon.com, Armstrong Industries, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. John Bowers and Karen White