Christy is the Managing Director of Experience Design at Argenta Park, a distributed community of product designers & technologists based in Kalamazoo. Her background is in Industrial Design, UX, and Human-Centered Design. Her range of work today is primarily in design leadership with a focused interest in connected experiences and product design strategy. She has a passion for elevating the design community. In the past this meant as IDSA, AIGA, Co-chair MWUX, IxDA Grand Rapids Local Leader and as Co-Founder of Ladies that UX Grand Rapids giving back teaching methodologies of product and user experience design through various digital formats at coLearning at The Factory and at Kendall College of Art and Design.