JOEL SANDERS | He/Him
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 | They/Them
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 objectives. As the Project Manager for initiatives including Stalled!, MIXmuseum and our Neurodiversity Working Group, 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 Friends of Gadsden Creek. Choe holds a B.A in Architecture from Columbia University.

CAMILLE ESQUIVEL | She/Her
Director of Development and Outreach
Camille directs and manages the active and prospective projects of MIXdesign, ensuring the continued success of the practice's thoughtful endeavors and the sustainable growth of the practice. She oversees MIXdesign’s daily operations and supports the team's efforts in research, education and advocacy. Prior to joining JSA/MIXdesign, Camille worked on architectural strategy projects for clients like JP Morgan-Chase Bank, and has worked for small and mid-sized architecture and interior design firms in Vancouver, Toronto and New York. Camille holds an M.Architecture and M.Sc in Urban Planning from Columbia University, with a B. of Environmental Design from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (where she is from).

MARCO LI | He/Him
Designer
As Senior Associate of JSA over the past eight years, Marco has served as Project Architect on several award-winning institutional and residential projects. In addition, Marco is the lead designer for MIXdesign projects, both speculative and commissioned, including Gallaudet University Field House Restroom and Locker Rooms,  Stalled! Airport Prototype, SoCal Club, and Queens Museum. 

HANSEL BAUMAN | He/Him
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 | She/Her 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.

MAGDA MOSTAFA | She/Her Autism Design Specialist
Magda Mostafa is the author of the Autism ASPECTSS™ Design Index, the first research-based design framework for autism worldwide. Through her practice, Progressive Architects, Mostafa has used ASPECTSS™ to design projects in a range of scales, from interior classroom retrofits to urban-scale neighborhoods in Europe, the US, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and the UAE. ASPECTSS™ has been presented at the United Nations as a framework for international autism design policy, as well as showcased in lectures and keynotes at Harvard’s GSD, the National Autistic Society in the UK, Ireland’s AsIAM and the World Autism Organization. She is also an Associate Professor of Design in the Architecture Department of the American University in Cairo, and the Co-Director of the UNESCO-UIA Education Commission and Validation Council, which is a global think-tank tasked with setting architectural education policy and practices as well as upholding threshold standards of excellence.

QUEMUEL ARROYO | He/Him 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 | She/Her Gender and Sexuality
Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is founding executive co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, co-editor of the Duke University Press book series ASTERISK: gender, trans-, and all that comes after, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (2008, 2017), co-editor of the multi-volume Transgender Studies readers, and co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005). A collection of her essays, When Monsters Speak, edited by McKenzie Wark, is forthcoming from Duke in 2024. Dr. Stryker is currently working to complete a book manuscript, Changing Gender, under contract to Farrar Straus Giroux.