Bio: Known to dabble in a variety of projects across industries and in the most interdisciplinary cross-brain way possible, Krystal’s current work pulls from personal, professional and academic experiences and research pertaining to health, disability, function and the dynamic interaction with apparel. Krystal recently graduated from Brown University with her 2nd master’s and is working on a startup venture in the area of adaptive apparel and improving the shopping experience for marginalized consumers. Outside of this work, Krystal has clinical research, patient education, advocacy experience in medical settings through previous employment at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and nonprofit management expertise across the globe while serving as the Executive director for a medical nonprofit providing surgical care for children with scoliosis. Krystal also has extensive design and construction experience with apparel, carpentry, Arduino products, web development etc. Krystal is passionate about bringing universal design concepts to venues in which diversity and disability have been historically neglected, or overly pathologized.