Lucie Lacava is a design consultant and a past president of SND (2001). She is a founding member of the francophone chapter of SND, based in Paris.  She was a design director at the The Gazette newspaper before founding her company Lacava Design Inc., a firm offering visual strategies for print and digital media. Since then, she has given visual personality to more than 100 publications across Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the United Arab Emirates. She has received more than 100 national and international awards in her career, including the SND's “World's Best Designed Newspaper" award for three of her projects.She has given workshops at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, WAN-IFRA, the American Press Institute, and as a visiting faculty member at the Universidad Catolica de Chile. Since 2013 she is a part-time lecturer at l'Université du Québec à Montreal, where she teaches typography and editorial design.