UCDA Design Summit

Vanessa Correa is the creative director at the University of California. Her work in brand development, strategy, creative direction, and design has been recognized by, among others, Fast Company, Communication Arts, Creative Review, AIGA, Print, Brand New, and HOW. She also founded a luxury jewelry brand with her work recently featured in Vogue, Town & Country, W, Elle, WWD, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, and more. With over 500,000 followers on Pinterest, she also partners with select clients on social media.

Rick Bailey is a familiar face at UCDA’s Design Summit. As founder and principal of RHB, a leading marketing and design consultancy serving higher education, Rick brings his experience and expertise from working with more than 150 colleges and universities around the country to the Santa Fe. The RHB team has earned numerous awards and national recognition for their marketing and design solutions including an award of excellence in the 2015 UCDA Design Competition. Rick attended Spring Arbor University and Michigan State and began his career in advancement and admissions offices managing college relations, fundraising and enrollment. He is a frequent conference speaker at regional and national meetings of professional marketing and educational organizations, and taught for 13 years at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business. He is the author of the award-winning book Coherence: How telling the truth can advance your cause (and save the world).

Ken Tanabe is a multidisciplinary creative director whose professional practice unifies design specialties, technical disciplines, educational spaces, social change, and public engagement with diverse audiences. His sixteen years of creative experience includes work for Google, Beyoncé, and Emmy-winning studio Imaginary Forces. He has twelve years of teaching experience at Parsons School of Design, where he received the Distinguished University Teaching Award. He is the founder of Loving Day, a design-driven social change project that is celebrated in dozens of cities as the world’s largest network of multicultural community celebrations. His work in design and social change has led to over seventy public speaking engagements at places like the Global PR Summit and the HOW Design Conference. Ken Tanabe and his work have been featured by CNN, NPR, BBC World, Print, Fast Company, and many others. See more at kentanabe.com

Sean Adams is a professor at Art Center College of Design, founder of Burning Settlers Cabin studio, and on-screen author for lynda.com/LinkedIn. He is the only two term AIGA national president in AIGA’s 100 year history. In 2014, Adams was awarded the AIGA Medal, the highest honor in the profession.

Sean is an AIGA and Aspen Design Fellow. He has been widely recognized by every major competition and publication, including a solo exhibition at SFMOMA. He has been cited as one of the forty most important people shaping design internationally, and one of the top ten influential designers in the United States. Previously, Sean was a founding partner at AdamsMorioka.

A Santa Fe, New Mexico based chef, author, Native foods historian, and photographer Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D. was born in New York City and raised on Long Island, New York with her father’s side of the family. Her first career experiences were as a professional cook and organic gardener. Lois spent over 18 years documenting foods and lifeways of Native American tribes from the Southwest which culminated in her James Beard Award winning cookbook, Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations. Lois is from the Kiowa Nation on her mother’s side. She has worked with world-renowned chefs, scientists, and academicians and published many culinary posters and cookbooks. Lois has worked with national and international advertising agencies as well as many editorial clients and is the chef/owner of her catering company Red Mesa Cuisine, which specializes in Native American ancestral foods with a modern twist. A UCDA Foundation Krider Prize for Creativity recipient, she continues to be involved in research on foods, including medicinal and spiritual plants, as well as working on projects focusing on the importance of traditional foods amongst Indigenous Peoples throughout the Americas. She is an adjunct professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) where she teaches an Indigenous Food Class and is a chef at the Santa Fe School of Cooking where she teaches about Native American cuisine. She is a culinary diplomat with the U.S. State Department’s Office of Cultural Affairs where she promotes the Native American food influence on cuisines from all over the world.