Meaghan is both a practicing graphic designer and a design educator. Currently, she serves as Chair for the Graphic Design program at Virginia Tech and as Co-Chair of the AIGA Design Educators Community (AIGA DEC) Executive Board. Meaghan received her Bachelors at University of Illinois, with a focus in Graphic Design, and a Masters of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, with a focus in Visual Communication Design.Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she worked professionally as a designer for the Architecture and Design firm, Marnell Companies, where she regularly worked with Architects, Interior Designers and Industrial Designers on large-scale resorts. Meaghan specialises in design and systems thinking, typography, branding, user-experience design, cross-media design, packaging, and editorial design, but loves learning new methodologies and finding ways to incorporate them into the classroom. Meaghan has experimented with many different materials and methods, such as taking my typographic studies into the realms of motion design, AR, and Processing. Regardless of the final output, she emphasises core values, process and design thinking.Her work has been awarded nationally and internationally by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA), Graphic Design U.S.A., Graphis, Hiii Typography, HOW Magazine, Indigo Design Awards, Print Magazine, the United Design Alliance, and the University & College Designers Association (UCDA).