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“Jen is a consummate professional. She is a superb designer with an in-depth understanding of the code and other underpinnings that make interactive design work as well as it can look. She’s also a helluva good writer!”

Recent Presentations

• 2025
  • Paper Selected: Rigorous Qualitative Human-Centered Methods to Inform Criteria for Broadening Participation in Institutions and Organizations
    2025 ASEE Annual Conference, June 22–25, 2025
  • Progressive Enhancement vs. Graceful Degradation: An Ethical Issue
    CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA, March 10–14, 2025, Progressive Enhancement PowerPoint 7.26MB slides on Github
  • Compounding Taxes: Overlapping Barriers and Disability Workshop
    RightsCon, Taipei, February 24–27, 2025; blocked from presenting due to the 47th presidential administration.
• 2024
  • Fight Climate Change with Digital Accessibility and the Web Sustainability Guidelines
    2024 Accessing Higher Ground, November 11–15, 2024, 2024 AHG PowerPoint 11.9 MB slides on Github
  • Three talks at CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA, March 19–22, 2024
    • Fight Climate Change with Digital Accessibility
      Fight Climate Change PowerPoint 6.3MB slides on Github
    • Compounding Taxes: Impacts of Disability and Intersectionality
      Compounding Taxes PowerPoint 9.1MB slides on Github
    • Fireside Chat on Equitable Accessibility
      available globally on CSUN ATC YouTube, Wednesday, March 20, 2024
  • The Context of You, World IA Day, Richmond
• 2023
  • Save Our World with Progressive Enhancement & Accessibility
    Accessibility Toronto (A11yTO), October 20, 2023
  • Save Our World with Progressive Enhancement & Accessibility (YouTube)
    Inclusive Design 24, September 20, 2023
  • Save Our World With Accessibility & Progressive Enhancement
    March 13–17, 2023 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA
  • The True Cost of Our Unknown Unknowns and Corners Cut
    March 4, 2023 World Information Architecture Day, Richmond, VA
• 2022
  • Code for America Summit Panel on Tech Talent
    with Angie Quirarte, Brian Whittaker, Jennifer Strickland, and Victor Udoewa; YouTube video
• 2021
  • Adopting a “Design By” Method
    Inaugural Civic Design Conference from Rosenfeld Media, December 2021
  • Selected as Best Paper: Inclusive Personalities for Conversational User Interfaces: A Preliminary Discussion
    IARIA CENTRIC 2021, The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services, October 3–7, 2021 Centric Paper 236kb PDF
• Earlier
  • Ohana for Digital Service Design (or Baking Accessibility into your Digital Product Lifecycle)
    Digital.gov 2020 Government UX Summit: July 28, 2020
  • You’re Killing Your Users!
    Numerous events, including Black Code Collective at The Washington Post, 2018
  • Design for Performance & Accessibility
    2016–2017 at Akamai Technologies and other organizations
  • Design for Developers
    2013, Lunch & Learn at Cogo Labs
  • Create Professional-looking Buttons with CSS3
    February 9, 2011, at Boston PHP Meet Up
  • Resources
    AI & Machine Learning, UXPA Boston, #UXPABOS17 advanced discussion roundtable facilitator

Writing

I used to write on Medium.

• What’s your process? Here’s mine.
• What does a designer actually do?
• We don’t need experts on stages.

Photography

In years past I won awards for my photography, and still love to take pictures. I practice what I call walking meditation with photos.