Margo Halverson is co-founder (2001) and board member of DesignInquiry, a non-profit educational organization that explores pressing issues in design and culture. She served as President from 2006 to 2010. Her creative practice integrates photography, graphic design, collaborative partnerships, and teaching, and has garnered national and international accolades. Co-principal of Alice Design Communication, a graphic design studio founded in 1998, Margo and her partner Charles Melcher are prolific designers to art institutions and non-profits. Margo is also committed to art and design education as a Professor and program chair at Maine College of Art since 1991. Margo holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. (Photography) from Arizona State University. She is internationally renown for teaching the creative process and for giving meaning form through words and image—which, in a photography book workshop in the eighties she was told, ‘that’s called graphic design’.