Teresa explores the full range of the expanding design field as a graduate student in the MFA Communication Design program at Texas State University. Going beyond her nearly 30 years of book and publication work, she engages with web, mobile, experience, and entrepreneurship design. Using research and a human-centered approach, she embraces cross-disciplinary projects to put design to work to communicate and to create solutions. She teaches typography and introduction to design at the undergraduate level and is interested in curriculum development.