Anat Caspi

Anat Caspi has served on the ODMF Board of Directors since 2017. Dr. Caspi designs for the fullness of human experience, guided by the belief that designing technology for heterogeneous populations necessarily requires mixed practices of participatory design, qualitative and quantitative methods.

She is the Director of the University of Washington's Taskar Center for Accessible Technology at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering. The Center's mission is to develop, translate and deploy technologies with a focus on benefiting people with disabilities.

Dr. Caspi was named Changemaker by president Obama in 2016. She received the Northwest Access Fund Technology Innovation Award in 2017 and her work on accessibility in sidewalks was awarded the Living and Inclusion Innovation award at the Smart Cities Expo 2022 World Congress.