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Critical Design Lab
Aimi Hamraie is director of the Critical Design Lab and host of the Contra* podcast. They are also author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
Visiting Assistant Professor, Critical Design Lab/New York University
Dr. Kevin Gotkin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, & Communication at NYU, where his research examines disability and media in the U.S. in the late 20th century. He is a Co-Founder of Disability/Arts/NYC.
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Josh Halstead is a graphic designer and an MA candidate in disability studies at CUNY. In addition to teaching graphic and user experience at UC Berkeley Extension, he is a board member at the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley and member of the AIGA Diversity & Inclusion Task...
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Critical Design Lab /Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Jarah Moesch (MFA, PhD) is an artist-scholar whose work explores issues of justice through the design, production, and acquisition of embodied knowledges, and then develops new models for justice to imagine new worlds. Jarah holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College...
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Critical Design Lab/University of Alberta
Kelsie Acton is a neurodivergent PhD candidate working on SSHRC funded research examining accessibility and timing in disability dance. Her choreography has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
