Our Team

Abigail McEwen (she/her/hers) Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, leads Carillon's Art & Activism community. Her research and teaching interests span the modern Americas, with emphasis on the art of twentieth-century Cuba and Puerto Rico, the transnational history of abstraction, and the postwar avant-garde. McEwen came to Carillon as an Undergraduate Studies Faculty Fellow in 2017-18 and has offered Art & Activism since 2018. She previously served as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Art History and Archaeology (2017-20) and has mentored students through the Undergraduate Technology Apprenticeship Program (College of Arts & Humanities) and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. As Faculty Director, she supports the continuing development of I-Series courses and their team projects as well as faculty-driven events and cross-community student engagement.

Erica Estrada-Liou (she/her/hers) is the Director of Curriculum & Experiential Learning at UMD's Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In this role, she helps staff, faculty and administrators throughout campus apply design to address complex challenges in their work and implement creative new approaches. She also designs learning experiences focused on teaching design thinking and innovation to students throughout campus. Estrada-Liou is also a co-founder of d.light design, a social enterprise that provides affordable light and power products to people living off of the electrical grid. After seeing d.light's first product to market, she joined Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school) as a Design Fellow, and later became the co-founder and director of the Social Entrepreneurship Lab. While at the d.school, she taught various classes and workshops on human-centered design applied to poverty and various social issues, both in the United States and abroad. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.B.A.