Nina Bellisio is a Professor of Graphic Design at St. Thomas Aquinas College in New York. She joined the faculty there in 2011 after teaching art and design for 10 years at the Art Institute of California-San Francisco. In her multiple roles at St. Thomas Aquinas College: Faculty Member, Department Coordinator, and Assistant Dean of Curricular Innovation and Evaluation, she works to integrate technology into learning.
Nina holds a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a doctoral student at Columbia University Teachers College where her area of research is the integration of technology into learning and the incorporation of design thinking practices into interdisciplinary curriculum. She has presented her research in these areas at ISTE, CAA, SECAC, FATE, and AIGA Design Educators conferences. In addition to her teaching, she is the Vice President of Integrative Teaching International and assists in the planning and implementation of ThinkTank and ThinkCatalyst.