Micki Watanabe Spiller is a faculty member at Pratt Institute and Parsons the New School for Design in New York City, teaching in the first-year foundation programs. Her interests in education revolve around creating communities in the classroom through breaking down barriers using discussions. She has both an MFA and an MLS, and her artistic practice includes exhibitions at the Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Book Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Evergreen House Museum; awards and honors include Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Art Matters Fellowship Grant, Queens Arts Fund, and the City Artist Corp Grant. Her research on Team Based Learning in an Art and Design First Year Studio Class, will be published in the Spring 2022 issue of Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal.