Eleuterio, SusanBernstein, AndrewSteinhauer, Sarah2021-05-042021-05-042021-04-27http://hdl.handle.net/11603/21455An art educator finds herself in the throes of a professional crisis, a viral pandemic, and an identity revelation while working through the last stages of earning graduate degrees in Digital Arts and Art and Technology. Her thought processes as a teacher and a designer overlap as she seeks to find creative solutions to address these challenges. She uses a design-thinking approach to develop a virtual community of educators in order to find connection, support, agency, and ultimately a new meaning in the fields of education and design. Using personal narrative paired with excerpts from relevant sources, this is a work of reflection on a journey of rebuilding oneself while building something new.71 pagesen-USThis work may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesdesign thinkinghuman-centered designuser experience designUX designeducator advocacyeducator agencyteacher supportteacher stresstrauma responsepersonal narrativecommunity buildingvirtual communityprocessing crisisidentityText