Speaker Series:

Alexa Vaughn

Alexa Vaughn is a Deaf landscape designer and accessibility specialist at MIG, a 2020 Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Fellow, and two-time alumna of the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her BA in Landscape Architecture in 2016 and her MLA in 2018.

Alexa has particular expertise in designing for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, facilitation of disabled community engagement during the design process, a working knowledge of the ADA Standards for Accessible Design through a landscape architectural lens, and a passion for Universal Design. Her goal is to create a more inclusive design process and a more accessible public realm that centers the Deaf and disabled communities, with disabled experts and stakeholders fully participating in the process.

She has been published twice in Ground Up Journal (Issue 7 and Issue 10), has written for ASLA’s “The Dirt” and LAF’s Landscape Performance Series, and advised the ASLA Universal Design Guide (published online in Aug 2019). Her DeafScape work (Ground Up, Issue 7) has been widely featured in publications such as ArchDaily, Curbed, and Elle Decor (2020 A-List Architecture). She continues to research and lecture widely about designing with Deaf and disabled people and her most recent work can be found at www.designwithdisabledpeoplenow.com.