Marisa Morán Jahn teaches art, creative technology, design justice, civic art, and creative directing and directs the Integrated Design Program (IDP), a transdisciplinary undergraduate program at Parsons/The New School. IDP provides a range of maker-based studios, academically-rigorous courses across the university, and real-world engagement to become design leaders, creative change-makers, and intrepid artists. She previously taught at MIT (her alma mater), Columbia University, and Northeastern Law School.
Jahn has taught thousands of in-school and after-school k-12 youth and created award-winning curriculum for and with low-wage workers, immigrants, women, and youth. Partners and commissions include The Guggenheim Museum, The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs in New York City; The American Museum of Natural History, Cantor Stanford University Art Museum, New York Hall of Science, Horizons for Homeless Children, Mozilla Foundation; National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, and filmmakers and impact producers such as SALTY Features (Yael Melamede), SHINE Global, Oxford Films.