Karen T. Lin Karen T. (“KT”) Lin, CUA, CSPO (she/they/we) is a former mid-90s web designer, and more recently, a former Chief Experience Officer of an acquired SaaS startup. Originally from Washington D.C., Karen has wielded and weaved her human...
Nathan Curtis Nathan co-founded EightShapes with Dan Brown near Washington, DC in 2006. He’s passionate about information architecture, user experience design, and front end development, and leads and consults with design systems teams to chart a strategic path and optimize...
Christine Perfetti Christine Perfetti is the Founding Principal of Perfetti Media, a user research and product consultancy based in Washington, D.C. She has spent 20 years refining the qualitative and quantitative research practices she leverages to help her clients understand...
Jaime Ventura As a user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design professional, Jaime Ventura is an expert in implementing government procedures and requirements to digital platforms. He has done extensive work for the Department of Defense, working to redesign...
Marc Rambeau Marc leads content strategy, content design and copywriting at U.Group. His team cuts through the cruft to drive action and simplify services. They help protect Americans from loan sharks, promote our national parks, fight child hunger and more....
Ashleigh Axios Ashleigh Axios is a speaker, strategic creative, and an advocate for design’s ability to break barriers and create positive social change. She is Chief Experience Officer and a Partner at Coforma, a digital consultancy and design firm that...
Jatin Gupta Jatin is a product designer at T-Mobile currently designing the T-Mobile for Business self-service platform. He is passionate about problem-solving in the digital space while keeping sustainability and ethics in mind. Jatin’s previous experience includes working as a...
Lena Trudeau Lena Trudeau is the COO at Fu Associates. Lena served as a member of the U.S. Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service. As Associate Commissioner at the General Services Administration (GSA), she was mandated to leverage technology to modernize procurement...
Jabali Williams As Director of User Experience, Jabali’s impact spans both clients and disciplines. From working on multi-award winning website redesigns to leading the growth of the user experience discipline—to include both content strategy and UX/UI design—Jabali walks the line...
Sunny Stueve Sunny Stueve is a Senior User Experience Architect in Washington, DC. For the last several years, she has focused on incorporating human centered methodologies, intuitive design, and research into the agile processes of complex, large-scale, enterprise applications in...
