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...
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...
Eduardo Ortiz Eduardo is a designer and an engineer. He has over 17 years of experience working as a software engineer, information architect, and user experience designer. For the past 10 years he’s been focused on developing design within social...
Jay Newton-Small Jay Newton-Small is cofounder of MemoryWell, which tells the life stories of those suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia. Previously, Newton-Small was Washington correspondent for TIME Magazine, where she remains a contributor. At TIME she covered politics as well...
