Lara Goulart is a well-rounded designer and educator, motivated by her curiosity and passion for education. She is a Lecturer at the Industrial Design program at RIT, where she applies her research on creative learning methods in the classroom. She earned her Master Degree in Industrial Design at RIT in 2016 and returned to share her broad experience in her hometown in Brazil. Prior to becoming a professor, she was a founder and designer at two startups. Her leadership and vision has led her to present in many startup competitions, collecting awards in Italy, China, and Brazil. She brings her entrepreneurial experience to the classroom by offering the most innovative tools and methods for project development and management, showing students how to effectively communicate their ideas with strong critical thinking, visualization and communication skills. Her teaching career started as a Design Thinking instructor for children and educators as part of innovative initiatives she founded in Brazil. Her current areas of research and interest include the impact of product design on physical and remote relationships, educational trends, lifelong learning, and play.