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Elise Roy

Deaf Human Centered Designer, Former Lawyer & Human Rights Advocate

Elise Roy
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Culture, DEI, Design, Disability, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Inspirational, LGBTQ, Motivational, Social Activism
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Elise Roy Biography

Elise Roy is a deaf human centered designer, former lawyer, and public speaker who works in the vanguard of the disruptive innovation movement.

She is a passionate proponent of the notion that when we design for disability, we often develop solutions that are better than when we design for the norm. A highly skilled public speaker, she has given talks at Microsoft, the U.S. Institute for Peace, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Her TEDx talk, “When we Design for Disability, We All Benefit,” had over 1 million views in less than 3 months after headlining TED.com.

Deaf from the age of ten, Roy has been a design thinker from early on, constantly adapting her environment and its tools to serve her extraordinary abilities. A Division I athlete in both soccer and lacrosse, Roy participated in the Olympic Development Program for soccer. In the classroom, she learned how to teach herself from books. At Brown University, Roy was recognized as one of the nation’s elite soccer goalkeepers. She also began to see herself as an advocate for people with non-normative abilities. Her freshman year, the University tried to take away the real time captioning, a cross between closed captions that you see on television and a courtroom stenographer enabling her for the first time to hear and participate in the classroom. After organizing the other deaf students at the University and meeting with several deans, Roy was able to secure the real time captioning for the remainder of her time at Brown.

Following Brown, Roy headed to law school at Northeastern University. While in law school, Roy became actively involved in gay and lesbian rights, acting as a fellow for the Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.C. Upon graduation, Roy received the highly prestigious Georgetown University Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship, with alumni and board members that included Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg, as well as, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.

Roy was in law school when she began working on the International Disability Rights Treaty at the United Nations, the first such human rights treaty to be passed in the 21st century. She quickly found herself thrust from a mere observer to the leader of her Article on culture, sport, recreation, leisure. The treaty, the first human rights treaty at the United Nations to be passed in the 21st century, was ratified in 2007. Over 155 countries have become signatories. After the treaty was signed in 2007, she traveled the world to see it put into action. Her work took her to Southeast Asia and the Gulf region, as well as Africa.

Roy’s deafness has always given her a heightened awareness of how profoundly design shapes the social, emotional and physical environment and this led her to study human-centered design in Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) Social Design program. Premised on the foundational notion that complex social problems require creative problem solving through design, she completed a master’s degree with a thesis that investigated the barriers that exist for individuals with hearing loss in the fabrication technology and design realm. She researched various tools to identify possible adaptations for the deaf user based on the auditory information emitted.

In 2016 Roy founded Elise Roy & Associates, a social enterprise that helps organizations analyze problems from the vantage point of people with disabilities. The organization is founded on the notion that when we design for extremes we come up with better solutions than when we design for the norm. Even though her firm is in its infancy, it has attracted clients that include USAID and the OECD, among various tech companies. As a recognized thought leader, she has given talks across the world for organizations such as Microsoft, NASA, AIGA, and the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/18/2024.

Elise Roy Speaking Topics

  • Speech Topics

    • Design Thinking and Human Centered Design
    • On Being Different
    • Coping with Multiple Identities (i.e. Deaf and GLBT)
    • How to Inspire Innovation
    • Jump Off the Cliff Now
    • Questioning for Innovation

Elise Roy Videos

  • Google I/O'19 - Elise Roy Interview
    Google I/O'19 - Elise Roy Interview
    Elise Roy, shares her personal story of how becoming deaf at the age of 10 became her greatest gift. A former human rights lawyer, she ...
  • Elise Roy Introduction - YouTube
    Elise Roy Introduction - YouTube
    Earlier this year we sat down to learn more about how TED Talk Speaker and Innovation + Inclusion Strategist Elise Roy got her start in the ...
  • Elise Roy | When we design for disability -- we all benefit - YouTube
    Elise Roy | When we design for disability -- we all benefit - YouTube
    Elise Roy is a deaf, inclusive design strategist who helps companies analyze problems from the vantage point of people with disabilities.
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