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Experience

LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco. Director, MAD Lab & AUX (Media and Accessible Design Lab, Accessible User Experience). 2025-present.

LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco. Assistant Director, Media and Accessible Design Laboratory. 2023-2025.

LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco. Senior Designer in the Media and Accessible Design Laboratory. 2015-2023.

Nikolas Weinstein Studios, San Francisco. Production Assistant. Briefly in 2015 assembling glass sculptures, performing quality checks on tiny connecting parts of glass sculptures.

Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, Chicago. Guest Relations Rep, mostly at the Robie House. 2014.

Education

University of California, Berkeley. Master of Architecture.

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art.

Guest Lectures

• University of San Francisco, 2023
• University of Chicago, 2021
• Illinois State University, 2020, 2021, 2022
• San Francisco State University, 2019

Conference Presentations

• NAI 2024
• CSUN 2019
• CTEBVI 2018, 2019, 2023

Work in Publications

Motherboard – VICE. Vital Coronavirus Information Is Failing the Blind and Visually Impaired by Melanie Ehrenkranz. Apr. 9, 2020.

Exhibitions

Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Flattening the Curve (tactile graphic), Alternative route for shipping while Suez Canal blocked (tactile map), Suez Canal, Egypt: Red Sea to Mediterranean Sea (tactile map). Design and Disability. June 7, 2025 – February 15, 2026

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland. BART tactile map and other tactile map collaborations in You Are Here: California Stories on the Map. March 2020 – 2023.

de Young Museum, San Francisco. Tactile Frida Kahlo portrait in Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving. March 2020

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. TMAP, Tactile Mapping System. The Senses: Design Beyond Vision. 2018