Lisa Babb comes from a rich activism and social justice history through engaging citizens. She has worked in the Graphic Design field and Graphic Design education at the collegiate level for more than twenty years. Lisa came from Brooklyn (before it became the brand that it is now) and has lived in Atlanta for over fifteen years. She has a Master’s from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor’s from Baruch College. The same year she finished Pratt, she became a graphic design professor after September 11, which changed the world for everybody.

Lisa Babb’s design journey is a testament to her versatility and adaptability. She began her career at a Corporate Design firm specializing in Award-winning Annual reports. Her professional path has taken her through a commercial catalog company, a marketing group for Seagrams, two significant pharmaceutical advertising agencies, a commercial magazine in advertising, and a few museums. Her design portfolio is as diverse as her career, ranging from a button to a congressional campaign, and from a Bud Billiken parade float to a point of purchase display for a hair company.

Within design education specifically, she has created a Graphic Design department from the ground up. She has made a point of teaching in places encouraging diversity in demographics, ideologies, and models. She started teaching Design at schools in New York City, the last being PACE University in the Master’s program, before coming to Atlanta and teaching at SCAD and now Georgia Tech. She lives by the mantra “If you want a better world, make one” and truly believes that Design, especially design education, is one of the few things that can change lives. Once you have graphic literacy and can really see, it is hard even to blink.