Liberal Arts

Dr. Rawls is an educator, speaker, music producer and DJ from Columbus, Ohio. He has worked with artists such as Dose One, Domo Genesis (Odd Future), Capital Steez (Pro Era), Beastie Boys, Slum Village, El Da Sensei, Sadat X, 9th Wonder, Us3, Aloe Blacc, Eric Roberson, and many others. In 2005, Dr. Rawls started his label/production company, Polar Entertainment. Dr. Rawls holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Cincinnati, a master’s degree in education from Ashland University, and an Educational Doctorate in Educational Administration from Ohio University. He is currently...

For questions and information about Business, Math, and Entrepreneurship class and the Business minor, please contact interim department head Dr. Sonya Fix sfix@ccad.edu Sapna has been teaching at CCAD since 2016 in a variety of departments and programs including Art History, Social Science, Industrial Design and the Master of Design. She specializes in human centered design research, strategy and product design. Sapna’s diverse and extensive experience affords her with a deep understanding of design, business and their intersection. Her multidisciplinary educational background includes a...

Born in Oahu, Hawaii, Babette Cieskowski has lived in South Florida, Kitzingen, Germany and Central Texas. She earned her MFA in Poetry from The Ohio State University in 2018, and she currently works with The Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) to increase access to higher education for incarcerated individuals within Ohio prisons. Her poems have appeared in Compose, the minnesota review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Zone 3, Frontier Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, Juked, The Laurel Review, among others. She is the author of the poetry chapbook 'Secrets My Body Keeps'...

Erica Brumbaugh currently teaches ecology and biodiversity at CCAD. She earned her BS in Water Resources at Heidelberg College and MS in Environmental Science at OSU.

Negesti Kaudo, who studied English and Creative Writing in North Carolina and Chicago, Illinois, has worked in higher education since 2016, developing a specialty in teaching English composition and rhetoric. She earned her BA from Elon University and her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. Negesti Kaudo is an Adjunct Instructor at Columbus College of Art & Design and teaches Writing & The Arts. Her professional recognition includes the Ohioana Library Association's Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant in 2015, and published work in Seneca Review, NewCity Lit, Mosaic Magazine, READY Publication...

Sierra J. Austin, PhD has taught at the university-level for nearly a decade, developing a specialty in feminist theory and Black girlhood studies. Dr. Austin earned her undergraduate degree in Mass Media Communications from Wilberforce University, and completed both her masters and doctoral degrees at The Ohio State University in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Austin currently serves as a lecturer at Columbus College of Art & Design in the Writing, Literature and Philosophy Department, where she teaches African American Literature. She is an alumna of several faculty development...

Pablo Tanguay, who studied at Columbia, Middle Tennessee State, and Ohio State, has been a poet, English professor, and administrator since the mid-2000s. Pablo originally taught at Columbus College of Art & Design in 2008, and has since, before returning this year, taught and served as the Undergraduate Program Manager for the Department of English at Ohio State. Pablo also serves as the Associate Poetry Editor for the Ohio State Press / The Journal Prize Series.