Dr. Claire Gallagher, Associate AIA, Professor of Education, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, NJ, is a researcher and educator whose areas of expertise are pedagogy and school design, and architecture education. An award winning practitioner, her work with community-based design, interdisciplinary instruction, and children as advocates for change in the built environment has allowed her to participate in a variety of activities and with a broad array of individuals ranging in age from preschool children to lifelong learners. With experience teaching both design and teacher education, she has worked with museums, school districts, research groups, and individuals to bring architects and educators together in projects based in the U.S and abroad. Curricula she has designed include those at Fallingwater (a project of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy), the Charter High School for Architecture and Design of Philadelphia, the Republic of Ireland, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Heinz Architectural Center, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Dr. Gallagher is widely published and is a frequent contributor at conferences both nationally and internationally.