Speakers

DAY 1

Antionette Carroll

Founder and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab

Antionette D. Carroll is the Founder, President and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit educating and deploying youth to challenge racial and health inequities impacting Black and Latinx populations. Within this role, Antionette has pioneered an award-winning form of creative problem solving called Equity-Centered Community Design (named a Fast Company World Changing Idea Finalist). Through this capacity, Antionette has received several recognitions and awards including being named an ADL and Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow, Roddenberry Fellow, Echoing Green Global Fellow, TED Fellow, ADCOLOR Innovator, SXSW Community Service Honoree, Camelback Ventures Fellow, 4.0 Schools Tiny Fellow, St. Louis Visionary Award Honoree for Community Impact, and Essence Magazine Woke 100.

Tania Anaissie

Founder and CEO of Beytna Design

Tania is the Founder and CEO of Beytna Design, an equity-design firm that supports social sector leaders to actualize their commitment to equity. She is a Founding Creator of Liberatory Design, Founding Member of the Equity Design Collaborative, Faculty at The National Equity Project and a former Lecturer at the Stanford University d.school. Tania is a graduate of Stanford University's Product Design program and a StartingBloc fellow.

Emi Kolawole

Firestarter & Project Lead

Emi Kolawole is a multi-media professional with over a decade of experience and is currently a Firestarter at X, the Moonshot Factory where she is charged with running experiments and finding new business opportunities.
Emi has worked in television, web and print media, including Congressional Quarterly, FactCheck.org, and more. She was the editor-in-residence and a senior media designer and lecturer at the Stanford d.school from 2013-2016.

Jen White-Johnson

Assistant Professor of Visual Comm Design & Art at Bowie State University

Jen White-Johnson is a Afro-Latina, disabled designer, educator, and activist, whose visual work explores the intersection of content and caregiving with an emphasis on redesigning ableist visual culture. As an artist-educator with Graves disease and ADHD, her heart-centered to disability advocacy bolsters these movements with invaluable currencies: powerful, dynamic art and media that all at once educates, bridges divergent worlds, and builds a future that mirrors her Autistic son’s experience.

Mary Bellard

Principal Innovation Architect Lead at Microsoft (She/Her)

Mary leads the accessibility innovation program at Microsoft to bring more inclusive and revolutionary ideas to market, and manages the 5-year, $25 million Microsoft AI for Accessibility program. Mary was part of the team that created Seeing AI, is a board member for the University of Washington's Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE), and runs the Ability Hack initiative in Microsoft's annual global hackathon.

Diane Dwyer

Journalist & Faculty at Berkeley Haas School of Business

Diane Dwyer credits the Irish gift of storytelling for her love of journalism as well as teaching. She's a two-time Emmy Award winner who worked in broadcast journalism in the Bay Area for 25 years. Diane teaches communications at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and co-teaches a course called Design Summer at Stanford. She also runs her own media-consulting business and serves as emcee, auctioneer and advisor for more than two-dozen non-profits. 

DAY 2

Elizabeth Guffey

Professor of Art and Design History, Head of MA Program at State University

Elizabeth Guffey is Professor of Art and Design History
and the coordinator of the MA program in modern and contemporary art, criticism, and theory at State University of New York, Purchase. She is co-editor of Making Disability Modern with Bess Williamson. She is also author of Designing Disability: Symbols, Spaces and Society.

Bess Williamson

Associate Professor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Dr. Bess Williamson is Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design (2019) and co-editor of Making Disability Modern: Design Histories (2020). Her work explores diverse histories and practices of design that extend expertise to users and communities, and challenge designers to address access and power in their work.

Aubrie Lee

Professional Namer at Google

Aubrie Lee is an engineer by training and an artist at heart. She studied premed and Product Design as a member of Stanford's Class of 2014, where she co-founded the student group Power2ACT, now called Stanford Disability Alliance. Two of her passions are 3D modeling and fashion modeling. You can find more of her story at aubrielee.com.

Andrea Small

Design Strategist and Educator

Andrea Small is a designer, writer and educator, currently at leading design at Samsung Research America in R&D Innovation. She also teaches "Innovations in Inclusive Design" at Stanford's d.school, and is co-writing the d.school’s forthcoming book “Navigating Ambiguity” and a set of "Intersectional Design Cards."

Sean Follmer

Stanford ME115B Professor & Stanford SHAPE Lab Director

Sean Follmer is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. His research in Human Computer Interaction, Haptics, and Human Robot Interaction explores the design of novel tactile physical interfaces and novel robotic devices. Dr. Follmer directs the Stanford Shape Lab and is a faculty member of the Stanford HCI Group.

Alexa Siu

PhD Student at Stanford University & SHAPE Lab Research Assistant

Alexa is a PhD Student at Stanford University, part of SHAPE Lab and the Stanford HCI Group. Her research interests are primarily in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Accessibility. In particular, she is interested in furthering accessibility in three application areas: design tools, collaboration tools, and information visualization. She loves design and making things, and hopes her work can help empower others in the same way it inspires her.

Lily Zheng

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant and Executive Coach (they/them, she/her)

Lily Zheng is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant and Executive Coach who works with organizations around the world to create high-impact and sustainable change. With their clients, they leverage organizational design, strategy, and culture to find novel solutions to systemic inequalities. A dedicated change-maker and advocate recently named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer, Lily writes for publications including the Harvard Business Review, Berrett-Koehler, and HR Executive. They recently published their second book, The Ethical Sellout: Maintaining Your Integrity in the Age of Compromise.