NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 8 -- New Jersey Institute of Technology issued the following news release:
When Kristen Hagen '13 is working through a design, she still returns to a question she first heard from the late Barbara Littman '94, an interior designer and NJIT benefactor who taught her in studio: "Do you like it?"
The question has stayed with her through hotel renovations, a return to the classroom as an instructor and her current work as a senior associate and interior design director at Mancini Duffy. Today, Hagen helps develop the firm's design processes and standards while working with architects and designers to create workplaces that support their clients' employees.
Her career has developed around an interest that first brought her ...