ADOBE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Research Intern, Product Equity
Akshita (she/her) is an MS Candidate in Human Centered Design & Management in MIT's Integrated Design & Management Program. She has six years of experience in human centered design research and sustainable brand strategy. Prior to MIT Akshita led a design & strategy consultancy, helping small businesses in tech, retail, and healthcare define product innovation and marketing strategies. She's passionate about creating conscious, self-aware brands that embrace sustainability, across the spectrum of environment, inclusion, growth, and innovation, through their product lifecycle.
Job Titles:
- Experience Researcher, Product Equity
Annika (she/her) recently completed her PhD in Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder creating technologies that enhance people's physical, sensory, and creative abilities. Her research leverages Human-Centered Computing (HCC), accessibility, and disability studies to support equity, in(ter)dependence, and creativity for people with disabilities.
Job Titles:
- Head of Equitable Research, Product Equity
Es (they/them) is a qualitative researcher focused on mitigating harm from emerging technologies and creating digital spaces for people from marginalized backgrounds. They honed their craft conducting market strategy with clients including Google, Facebook, PlayStation, and Snap before becoming a senior design researcher at Microsoft, where they worked on the future of web experiences and responsible product innovation. Es utilizes their orientation toward systems-level change, design justice, and radical inclusion to alter product team methodology while building better products.
Job Titles:
- Senior Product Manager, Product Equity
Julianna (she/her, they/them) founded and led accessibility and inclusive design communities of practices within the Government of Canada for more than a decade with a focus on corporate governance, evaluation, and playbook development. They also served as a digital fellow with the Canada School of Public Service, where they drafted one of the first accessibility plans under the Accessible Canada Act for the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Julianna has led the development of key integrated metrics to evaluate products and product teams across a wide variety of digital products and services. Their work explores the intersection of identity, disability, and Indigenous perspectives, and the dismantling of systemic and emerging barriers to access.
Job Titles:
- Senior Product Manager, Product Equity
Mariah (she/her) was formerly the Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Webflow where she worked to design systems and experiences that enabled everyone to show up authentically and grow to their full potential. Through all her work, Mariah questions, reimagines, and redesigns the systems and practices that surround us to help build a better world, and ensure that all people have equitable opportunities.
Job Titles:
- Principal Designer, Product Equity
Matt (he/him) integrates equitable design practices across every aspect of the Adobe user experience. He also trains and mentors the Adobe Design team and advocates principles of accessibility and inclusive design to the public at large. Matt has worked in almost every product-related role at Adobe: engineer, evangelist, program manager, product manager, and designer. He will be working with teams to make sure the responsibility for equity work is shared across everyone, in every role.
Job Titles:
- Director of Product Equity
- New Director
Timothy (he/him) has spent a decade building and scaling teams, and setting product vision and strategy for Zillow, Microsoft, Capital One, and Meta. While at Meta he led a team to create scalable solutions to reduce harm, abuse, and misinformation while increasing peoples' voices and equitable outcomes across the company's apps. He is also a member of Adobe's Design Circle, an Adobe initiative that uses scholarship and mentorship to transform the design industry by promoting greater diversity and creating more visibility to career paths to design; and a co-founder, with Antionette Carroll, of &Design, an organization that cultivates and activates Black, Latinx, and Indigenous designers by providing tools, resources, and training to support them on their creative career journeys.