JOEL SANDERS
Director
Joel Sanders founded MIXdesign in 2018 as a branch of his New York based studio JSA. Sanders is Director of Post-Professional Studies and Professor at Yale School of Architecture. Editor of STUD: Architectures of Masculinity and Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, Sanders’s writings and practice have explored the complex relationship between culture and social space, looking at the impact that evolving cultural forces (such as gender identity and the body, technology and new media, and the nature/culture dualism) have on the designed environment. JSA projects have been featured in international exhibitions and the permanent collections of MoMA, SF MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The firm has received numerous awards, including six New York Chapter AIA Design Awards, three New York State AIA Design Awards, three Interior Design Best of Year Awards, and two ALA / IIDA Library Interior Design Awards.

SEB CHOE
Associate Director
Seb Choe coordinates the efforts of our in-house staff, institutional partners, research assistants, interns and network of consultants on MIX research, educational, legal and fundraising initiatives. As the Project Manager for Stalled! and MIXmuseum, they oversee research and design teams, organize lectures and workshops, and disseminate our work through publications in print and online formats including Stalled! Online and Stalled! The Video. Choe works at the intersection of design, activism and education and has worked with groups like the Mohawk Valley Collective, the Rikers Education Program and The Architecture Lobby. Choe holds a B.A. in Architecture from Columbia University.

Hansel Bauman
Human-Centered Design Specialist
Hansel Bauman is the founder of the human-centered design consultancy HB/a+p. Bauman served as adjunct faculty and campus architect for Gallaudet University—the only liberal arts university in the world fully dedicated to serving deaf and hard of hearing students. In 2006 he co-founded the Gallaudet DeafSpace* Project a user-centered design and research initiative exploring the socio/spatial dynamics of deaf experiences. He led the development of the DeafSpace Design Guidelines—a catalogue of over 100 architectural principles attuned to deaf spatial sensibilities for which he received the International Association of Universal Design, Gold Award in 2015. Bauman is a member of the International Code Council’s Accessibility Standards Committee. His work has been exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the National Museum of American History.

*DeafSpace is a Registered Servicemark of Gallaudet University

Eron Friedlaender Autism Research Advocate
Eron Friedlaender, MD, MPH is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and an attending physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her research has centered on how conditions in the built environment relate to injury risk as well as documenting ways in which individuals with autism are vulnerable within health care systems. She leads program development supported by ongoing research initiatives to shape a comprehensive approach to the care of children with autism and related developmental disabilities within the hospital environment. As an advocate for those with autism, she has developed models for community inclusion nationally. She continues to build on her experience as a parent of a child with autism with formal training in advocacy, in collaboration with colleagues at the Center for Autism Research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on community education, and as a medical provider for children in crisis.

QUEMUEL ARROYO Physical Accessibility
Quemuel Arroyo served as a Chief Accessibility Specialist at the NYC Department of Transportation, overseeing all matters of accessibility for the agency and effectively representing the interests of over 850,000 New Yorkers with disabilities. He is a New Yorker with a disability, committed to innovative solutions for barrier free urban space that fosters diversity. In 2015, Arroyo pioneered a handcycle pilot-program, providing New Yorkers with disabilities the same opportunity to use bikes during Summer Streets. He also facilitated a collaboration between the DOT and Pedestrians for Accessible and Safe Streets (PASS), an organization dedicated to ensuring accessible infrastructure for New Yorkers with impaired vision and hearing.

SUSAN STRYKER Gender and Sexuality
Susan Stryker is a founding figure and leading trans-activist in the field of transgender studies. Stryker is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, where she leads the Transgender Studies Initiative and serves as founding co-editor of the journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. An Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker (Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria [ITVS 2005]), she has also been recognized for her co-edited anthologies The Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge, 2006; Lambda Literary Award) and The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (Routledge, 2013; Ruth Benedict Book Prize). She earned her Ph.D. in United States History from the University of California-, Berkeley in 1992, subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship in sexuality studies at Stanford University, and has been distinguished visiting faculty at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.