Welcome!

Past semesters

Spring 2025

Potential Projects

Syllabus

Recurring Event Recommendations
Disability Films and Talks 

Other Local Volunteering Opportunities 

Meetings are every Friday from 11am until 1pm. Students can join in person or via zoom.

Graduate Students

Ayushi Shah: A south-asian female with dark brown hair and gold earrings.
 Ayushi Shah (She/Her)

  • Ayushi’s blog
  • Major: Integrated Design & Media, Class of 2025
  • Academic Interests: HealthTech, Experience Design, Accessibility, Sustainability
  • Personal Interests: Yoga, Movies & TV shows, exploring the city
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: Submitted IRB for Learners United (still need to make some changes), completed the Usability testing plan. 
A South Asian woman with medium-length black hair, standing in a blue dress and smiling. Tej Mehta (She/Her)

  • Tej’s Blog
  • Tej’s Blog Spring 2025
  • Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
  •  Academic Interests:  Balance assessment and Rehabilitation,  Neural signal processing and analysis, AR, VR
  • Personal Interests: Biking, Indian classical music
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: Submitted the IRB application to gain approval for conducting user testing at Luv Michael. We are working on revisions as requested by the IRB.
Southeast asian woman with straight black hair wearing a black top standing in Prospect Park during cherry blossom season. Thao Chi Vu (she/her)

  • Chi’s Weekly Blog
  • Major: Integrated Design & Media
  • Interests: yarn crafts, paper engineering, product design
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • Deeper research on Alt text and digital accessibility. 
this is a photo of Samantha. Samantha is posing for a photograph, she is a white woman smiling with long lite brown hair wearing a blue short sleeve button up dress.
 Samantha Rodgers (she/her)

  • VIP Blog & NYU Portfolio
  • NYU IDM grad student & engineer
  • academic interests: the intersection of engineering, neuroscience, & design empowerment
  • interests: Responsible AI & Accessibility, but also collecting more hobbies that come with t-shirts 🙂  
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments:
    • Began building a professional community of talented individuals who see the same everyday problems I do.
    • Frustrated by the limitations of mundane things, I developed a Chrome extension for my master’s thesis—Unless—engineered to simplify & accelerate the discovery, adoption, and integration of multimodal accessibility features across web pages. 
    • A few new t-shirts!! 
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Undergraduate Students

Tan Asian girl with brown hair head rested on right elbow, wearing purple pants and looking at the camera Angelique Regondola (they/them)

  • My Blog
  • Major: IDM
  • Interests: music, guitar, reading, reviewing chai lattes
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • Participated, coordinated and facilitated sensory events 
    • Created posters for sensory events and put them around campus 
This is Dariana's headshot. She's sitting down in a diagonal way in front of a purple background. She's wearing a brown jumpsuit. Dariana is a latina woman, she has light skin, straight hair, and brown eyes Dariana Gonzalez (she/her)

  • My Blog
  • Major: Computer Science
  • Minor: IDM
  • Interests: film photography, crocheting, UX design, full stack development, sustainability, pilates 🙂
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments:
    • Working on the 2025 Artshare show website!
    • Further learning about accessibility rules in design and developing 
East Asian boy wearing a white shirt and a light blue flannel, while smiling at the camera and standing in front of a bus stop. Joseph Kang (he/him)

  • My blog
  • Major: Integrated Design and Media
  • Interests: cooking, going on walks, trying out mom-and-pop food spots
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • Hosted stress ball workshops so students/staff can rest and unwind
    • Overlooked the development of LTC’s forum website
    • Improved accessibility and UX of LTC’s main website
White male with brown, curly hair. Wearing glasses and a green t-shirt. Christopher Haddad (he/him)

  • My Blog
  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Interests: Basketball, soccer, watching movies/shows, and playing video games.
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments:
    • Printed a variety of new fidget toys
    • Attended the ArtShare Art Show
Athena holding her dog in front of a city skyline.
 Athena Luo (She/Her/They)

  • My Blog
  • Major: Interactive Media Arts
  • Interests: Film, Music, Games, Dogs, Travel, Environment, Biology and Neuroscience related topics
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: ADHD group tracking
A brown female wearing a pink sweater and black jeans that is sitting on a rock in central park
 Jenna Nandlall (she/her)

  • My Blog
  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Interests: Web development, 3D Printing, Playing video games, Basketball 
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: Printed numerous fidget toys and attended HeartShare ArtShow
Female-presenting person with pink glasses facing the camera wearing woven turtleneck with a white, maltese dog to her right Stefanie Cohen (she/her)

  • Stefanie’s blog
  • Major: Communicative Sciences and Disorders
  • Interests: dog training, journaling, sustainable and urban agriculture, crafting
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • Was able to acquire a much deeper understanding of disability studies and critical theory, through readings. 
    • Learned a lot about, and wrote a little bit about, autism and “unconventional language.”
    • Spent the semester studying the intersection between animal studies and disability studies. 
    • Created a digital zine that serves as an introduction to disability and animal studies
East Asian woman with short, straight black hair, wearing gray glasses, a coat, scarf, and a mask. Anna Chen (she/her)

  • Anna’s blog
  • Major: Childhood education and special education
  • Interests: Dogs, birds, baking, reading 
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • Collaborated with Malinda and AHRC
    • Learned more about digital accessibility, especially captions and sound
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 Derek Kim (he/him)

  • Derek’s blog
  • Major: Computer Science
  • Interests: Pizza, Golf, Soccer
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • Contributed a machine learning project focused on improving sensory regulation for autistic individuals.
Photo of Malinda. She's wearing a winter coat and is surrounded by trees. Malinda Qian (she/her)

  • Malinda’s blog
  • Major: Biomolecular Science
  • Interests: art, video games, genetics
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: Got to 3D print a variety of fidgets, and collaborated with AHRC to print pencil grips for their art program.
A photo of Kareem wearing a blue shirt and glasses with his arms crossed
 Kareem Morsy (he/him)

  • Kareem’s Blog
  • Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Interests: Basketball, Chess, Medicine 
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: Finished an IRB!
A South Asian woman wearing a black hijab and glasses standing outdoors on a bridge in an urban area, surrounded by tall buildings. She is dressed in a light-colored long-sleeved shirt layered under a gray jumpsuit and has a denim crossbody bag. The background shows a clear blue sky with scattered clouds. Fabiha Chowdhury (she/her)

  • Fabiha’s Blog 
  • Major: Biomolecular Science 
  • Interests: Traveling, Journaling, Poetry, Bollywood, Healthcare Accessibility
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: Officially reopened the Ability Project collaboration with the OHCPD at NYU Dentistry.
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 Vlera Mehani (she/her/hers)

  • Vlera’s blog
  • Major: Interactive media
  • Interests: Assistive Tech, Human-Computer Interaction, traveling, cats
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 

  • Facilitated a hands-on assistive technology workshop, completed CITI training and Cayuse registration for the Luv Michael user testing study
Angie looking at the camera.
Angie Mohamed (she/her/hers)

  • Angie’s Blog
  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Interests: Design Thinking & Innovation, Assistive Technology, Disability Justice, Movies, Traveling
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • Secured Round 2 of NYU Makerspace Prototyping Funding for telescopic cane project
    • Learned more about design thinking and current efforts/start-ups focused on digital accessibility
Arianny wearing a black blazer with a blue button up, and the hair is black pulled back into a bun. The background is buildings, the Manhattan bridge, and water underneath.
 Arianny Abreu (She/Her/Hers)

  • Arianny’s Blog
  • Major: Integrated Design & Media
  • Minors: Computer Science & Disability Studies
  • Interest: Traveling, Concerts, Food, Sign Language, Assistive Technology.
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • I built the Ash & Co. bracelet-making guide using Figma; view the guide here. Created a step-by-step guide on how I built it so that Ash&Co. can continue working on it. 
    • Attended a Deaf Community event.
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    • Blog: blog.kapui.net/everyday-assistive-technology/
    • Major: Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon 2028
    • Academic Interests: Software Engineering, Accessible Web & Application Development
    • Portfolio: portfolio.kapui.net
    • LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/kapui/
    • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • As I’m into web dev and software engineering, I learned about digital a11y design, including the W3C standards, color contrasts, screen reader and keyboard navigations, and how to practically apply these principles by using HTML aria properties and libraries such as Radix UI.
    • Watched several recordings of web accessibility conferences.
a tan male with curly brown hair and a light mustache and goatee, wearing a light brown shirt in a floral setting Josh Dos Santos (he/him)

  • Josh’s Blog
  • Major: Economics
  • Interests: Travel, Movies & TV Shows, UX Design, and Product Management 
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments:
    • Collaborated with a team on the development of LTC’s forum website by working to improve its accessibility features and the UX design of the main website.
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 Yasmin Yaghi (she/her)

  • Yasmin’s Blog!
  • Major: Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering!
  • Interests: EMS, tutoring, assistive technology and Barnes and Noble!
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • Put flyers for one stress ball workshop 
    • Attended/made stress balls for another workshop
    • Completed CITI social and behavioral training
Mohammed Sami (He/him)

  • Sami’s Blog
  • Major: Biomolecular Science
  • Interests: Tutoring, Watching travel and food vlogs, Abstract art, Medicine
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • Completed Maker space safety training 
    • Printed fidget toys
    • attended MMC 3D printing event and volunteered to help assemble spoon stabilizers 
  Princess Twasam

  • My Blog
  • Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
  • Interests: Books 
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: 
    • learn fundamentals of digital accessibility and disability studies.
  Lily Luo (she/her)

  • My Blog
  • Major: Computer Science
  • Interests: gaming
  • Spring 2025 Accomplishments: Learned digital accessibility knowledge, completed Makerspace training with 3D printing experience, participated in events
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