Invited Speakers

Ms. Majewski joined the Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD) in January 2014.  Current IHCD clients include the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, the new national web-based resource on accessibility and universal design for the National Endowment for the Arts, and lead on accessibility of programs for a comprehensive study on accessibility and universal design for Georgia Institute of Technology.

From May 2001 to January 2014, she was an Accessibility Specialist in the Disability Rights Section, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice (USDOJ). There Ms. Majewski worked on issues of museum accessibility, accessible technology, collaboration between the disability and business communities, and ADA technical assistance. In addition, she worked on the Disability Rights Section team that redesigned the Department’s ADA technical assistance website www.ADA.gov, and its teams that wrote and designed ADA technical assistance materials.

Prior to her work with the USDOJ, Ms. Majewski worked for the Smithsonian Institution. Beginning as Coordinator for Special Education in the Institution’s then Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, she later became the Office’s Director of Outreach Programs and then founded the Institution-wide Accessibility Program where she worked with all of the museums and the National Zoo to increase accessibility throughout the Institution.  She led the team that wrote the first comprehensive set of U.S. museum exhibition universal design guidelines, the Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition Design, the most recommended guidance document in the field.