Carol’s scholarship and research interests are diverse, and collaboration is a high priority. She has always been a project driven person who excels at solving a wide range of problems. Creative processes and techniques using design thinking, as well as improving design education, can be seen throughout her work. Making the visual and performing arts available for all, especially young minds, is very important to her. 

Carol is the Co-Creative Director for Command G which is a design studio housed on the RIT campus. Command G’s mission is to empower high performing design students to work on client projects, while learning how to run their own business. Aside from her work at RIT, working with nonprofit organizations has been an area of involvement as Carol has sat on the Board of Directors for Music is Art and STAGE, while also working with other community organizations. Prior to teaching at RIT in 2005, Carol was the president of her company, Fillip Design Group Inc for over 10 years in Las Vegas Nevada, Atlanta Georgia, and Buffalo New York, with national clients including Hard Rock Properties, the PGA, Serious Skin Care, UFC, and Turner Entertainment.