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Joanne Healy Dean of Graduate Studies
Academic Leadership
Joanne Healy joined College for Creative Studies in 2009 to lead the launch of the College’s Graduate Studies division. As Dean of Graduate Studies, she works closely with industry and academic leaders to prepare the College’s international student body for successful careers in design. She has conducted lectures and workshops on design worldwide and leads the College’s CCS Summit series on Designing Experiences that Delight and Engage. Healy’s achievement as an educator is informed by more than two decades of experience in the areas of brand management, corporate communications, and environmental and interactive design. Before joining College for Creative Studies, she served as Vice President of the Interactive Strategies Group at T. Rowe Price Associates, an investment management firm in Baltimore, Maryland. Healy was responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of innovative online product and service initiatives that received accolades in The New York Times, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. One of her key initiatives was the collaboration with Walt Disney Imagineering and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online to design an edutainment experience for children at Epcot® on personal finance, The Great Piggy Bank AdventureSM.
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Prior to T. Rowe Price Associates, Healy was a Managing Director in the consulting firm, Optima Group, in Fairfield, Connecticut, leading the creative department in the development of award-winning brand and marketing campaigns for proprietary investment products and services for Fortune 500 companies. She began her career as a designer at Gottschalk + Ash International in Toronto, Ontario, where she worked on branding and wayfinding projects for Scotia Plaza in downtown Toronto, the headquarters of Bank of Nova Scotia, and Hazelton Lanes, a premier shopping mall in Yorkville, Ontario. Healy received her BA at Wesleyan University and MFA in Graphic Design at Yale University.