Ann-Marie Conrado is an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Notre Dame with thirty-one years of award-winning industry and teaching experience. With degrees in design and anthropology from Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she focuses on expanding the reach of design to address challenges, concerns and needs not traditionally served by design. Before academia, she worked in consulting with Insight Product Development before starting her own studio and has garnered extensive awards. Her scholarship champions design as a means to tackle complex societal issues from medical adherence to grassroots economic development, here and abroad.