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Holly K. Johnson is the Associate Director of Digital Learning Innovation and Outreach at the University of Utah. In 2021 was named an Adobe Creative Campus Thought Leader and recipient of the 2021 University Connected Learning Innovation Award. She joined the University of Utah in 2010 as an Assistant Professor in Graphic Design. She also worked as an Instructional Consultant at the Center for Teaching Excellence, working with faculty and graduate students, with a specific focus on design thinking as a pedagogical practice. Before receiving her MFA from Utah State University in 2010, she spent seventeen years as a textile apparel and home goods product designer, for three Fortune 500 companies, conducting trend research around the world for global brands. Her passion is identifying new approaches to promote creative agency, and facilitate engaged, meaningful learning experiences, with an interest in community learning spaces for ideation, exploration, iteration with a focus on the pedagogy of play.

Audra Carlisle is a Learning Experience Designer, currently serving as the Digital Creativity Manager in University Connected Learning’s department of Digital Learning Experience Innovation and Outreach at the University of Utah. She works directly with students in the Adobe Creative Commons at Kahlert Village, coordinating service development, programming, and learning resource production. She also works with instructors and administrators across the university to navigate creative digital teaching tools using modern, research-based approaches in digital pedagogy and new media engagement. On top of all that, she’s an avid gardener, dog petting enthusiast, and advocate for adolescent-young-adult (AYA) cancer prevention, awareness, and treatment equity. B.A. in Arts, Media & Engineering (Arizona State University) M.Ed. in Learning Design & Technologies (Arizona State University)

Stella Liechty is a Human Centered Design expert currently working as an Instructional Consultant and Technical Writer for Digital Learning Experience Innovation and Outreach for University Connected Learning at the University of Utah. She is currently working primarily to develop program and systems level design for new online master’s degree programs. She also works with partners both on campus and corporate to develop new educational initiatives and pathways for students, staff, faculty and community members. When not at work, she spends time practicing and studying yoga, wandering with her dog and friends, and exploring the deserts and mountains of the west by foot, bike, ski and vintage Toyota. Stella believes that thinking globally and acting locally is truly the way forward.