Originally from Saida in southern Lebanon, Marwa grew up sensing both where she belonged and where she did not. School, she recalls, was “a chaos of rules,” a system that made it clear her creative mind was not welcome. In response, she began imagining a different future, “day dreaming in class about what kind of life I would lead the second I graduated,” recognizing her own potential and her need “to create rather than consume.” For Marwa, design is “a fluid, ongoing discussion between us and our physical, social, spiritual environment.” Her work is drawn toward bold form, movement, and expression, pieces that do not ask to be understood, but insist on being seen. Her creative process resists rigid structure - sometimes ideas arrive fully formed; other times she lets her pen and materials guide her, trusting intuition to shape the outcome. Creativity is, for Marwa, “the ability, joy and privilege to look at the world through a lens of my choice.” At CSB, she hopes to develop professional skills while contributing to a community rooted in exploration, encouragement, and freedom, one that invites others, as she does herself, to keep expanding the ways they perceive and create.