Barbara Sudick teaches communication design at California State University, Chico. In 2008–09 she was the distinguished Nierenberg Chair at Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, she is a member of the national steering committee for AIGA’s Design Educators Community where she is leading an initiative to develop Professional Standards of Teaching, a living document that engages design educators in developing and maintaining an ethical or cultural framework within which to practice. Barbara spoke recently at the AIGA response_ability conference and was a facilitator for the Designer’s Accord Global Summit on Design Education & Sustainability.