Editor-in-Chief, Ambidextrous Magazine

Corina arrived at Stanford as a freshman ready to study history or something social science and maybe become an English teacher. This all changed after a fateful encounter with a seminar where she learned about this thing called "design" and realized immediately that as a logic-bound questioner who wants to understand everything and a creative tinkerer who needs to be making or messing with stuff constantly that this was the thing she was supposed to be doing. Design encompasses her desires to figure out how things work, fit together, and can be improved.

Corina completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at Stanford in mechanical engineering, concentrating in design methodology and mechatronics. She has pursued classes and research in the areas of design, human computer interaction, and tangible media. One specific interest she explored during her master's is the importance of design documentation and its role in the design process through a research project, creating a collaborative sketching tool to support brainstorming, and through her role as a course assistant, supporting the documentation needs of students completing corporate-sponsored design projects.

Corina's propensity for asking questions, figuring out what is missing, and learning about people has also led to her interest in journalism and communications. She worked as a reporter and editor for her high school newspaper and The Stanford Daily but is most passionate about Ambidextrous Magazine, the design journal of the d.school. She believes that having a forum such as Ambidextrous where people can exchange stories and perspectives and learn about each other's work and ideas is integral to building a more open and able design community. Through the magazine, she hopes to help improve products, thinking, and conversations. Corina has worked at Ambidextrous since its inception in 2005 and is currently an editor-in-chief.