Full Bio – Lauren Race

I lead accessibility across product design and design systems at scale, while teaching and researching multisensory interaction at NYU. My practice combines human-centered, co-design, and multimodal methods to remove access barriers.

My design journey began with the visual, spanning over a decade as an art director at agencies including Razorfish and BBDO. To shift from the brand to the user, I earned my master’s at NYU’s  Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts. There, I dedicated my practice to accessibility, expanding my work to nonvisual modalities, such as tactile and auditory.

Since 2020, I have guided accessibility architecture across global platforms, including Netflix and Twitter. I balance enterprise scale with community engagement: teaching graduate-level accessibility design at NYU ITP, co-founding a multisensory art collective, serving on committees for ACM conferences, and volunteering at the Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library where I teach nonvisual art and design techniques.