Jennifer Strickland
Senior Human Centered Design, Accessibility Engineer
With more than 25 years of experience in a variety of mediums, Jennifer has led product teams and served in nearly every role in the product lifecycle. With an intersectional, non-binary identity of a multi-racial ethnicity and invisible disabilities, they experience a lot of exclusion. Prioritizing inclusion, Jennifer aims to ensure no one is excluded from products and services from the beginning. Inclusion as culture, not a feature to be backlogged.
Additionally, Jennifer is an invited expert with the W3C, serves on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group, finalizing WCAG 2.2, drafting WCAG 3.0, and a co-lead of the Structured Content sub-group. They volunteer with a number of organizations such as the U.S. Digital Response, AIGA DC (2021 DotGov Programming Director, IxDA DC (organizer), UXPA DC, and speaks on inclusion, accessibility, web performance, and CSS at a variety of events.
Rosenverse talks by Jennifer:

" Design by means letting the people we serve lead the process and ourselves to drop our egos and let go. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations
May 17, 2022

" Academia pressures us to share research for academic audiences, but public communication is key to impact. "
Fireside Chat: How Design Addresses a World on Fire
March 18, 2022

" The absence of empathy and understanding is causing much of the pain in design. "
Adopting a "Design By" Method
December 9, 2021