Margalus is the Johnson Professor of Entrepreneurship and Leadership, and Director of the Connolly Center for Entrepreneurship at Washington & Lee University. Prior to that he was the founding Faculty Director of Maker Innovation at DePaul University’s Idea Realization Lab(s), and a Professional Lecturer of Industrial and Game Design in the School of Design in the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media.
Margalus concurrently runs Spacelab NFP, a non-profit makerspace, and Margalus, LLC, a design studio that develops toys and game platforms. He holds an MS with distinction in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul University, a BS in Political Science from North Central College, and various design certifications from Cornell, MIT, Harvard, and Pratt (pursuing).
His work has been featured on outlets from the Chicago Tribune to NPR, and he has given keynote talks for organizations ranging from Chicago Public Schools’ Googlepalooza to the American Medical Association‘s ChangeMedEd. He was invited to the Obama White House in 2015 for his work on makerspaces.
In his free time, Margalus is a volunteer backpack outings leader for the Sierra Club, where he’s the National Outings Midwest Committee Chair. He’s also an avid cyclist, with plans on completing his fourth RAGBRAI tour in 2025 and a coast-to-coast cycle.
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