Books Received

Rachel Hellgren is a design educator and researcher with a background in visual communications and design management. She composes the Books Received annotations for Design Issues and provides pre-production design support for selected cover submissions. Rachel is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Emerging Technology in Business and Design department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She also maintains a freelance design business. Her research interests include topics of compassion, improvisation, and character in relationship to equitable social systems, as well as the future of the liberal arts and design education. rachelhellgren.com