Community & Connection: SIGACCESS 2025 Travel Award Report

My research interests are in human-computer interaction, accessibility, and creativity. My goal is to bring accessibility to the forefront of technology, enabling everyone to meet their needs and engage in a creative practice. Over the past year (2024–2025), I conducted research grounded in Crip Technoscience 1 to investigate how disabled artists repurpose technology to express identity and creativity rather than to "fix" disability. This work culminated in a paper, Expanding Norms, Negotiating Bodies: How Artists with Disabilities Perceive and Use Creative Tools 2, which was accepted to the ASSETS 2025 Conference. With the support of the SIGACCESS Travel Award, I was able to travel to Denver, Colorado, and attend the 2025 ASSETS conference in person. The travel grant also funded me to take part in the ASSETS 2025 Participant Recruitment in Accessibility Research Workshop.