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Dr. Robin Vande Zande is professor of art and design education at Kent State University. She researches and writes about design education. Her book, Design Education: Creating Thinkers to Improve the World (2016), is a resource on teaching design to PreK-12 students. Robin was chair of the International Design Education Research Conference with 34 countries represented, featured speaker for 25 national or state events and has been an education committee member for the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, and Fallingwater, Pennsylvania.

Robin has been awarded Design Educator of the Year, the Ohio Art Education Association Higher Educator of the Year, Kent State University Distinguished Teaching Award, Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association, National Art Education Higher Educator and Western Region Art Education Higher Educator.