Summary
Snow Xu is a Lead Accessibility Engineer with eight years of interdisciplinary experience blending accessibility engineering, design research, and program management to make digital and physical products usable for people with diverse abilities. Currently pursuing a Master of Design Studies at Harvard GSD, she drives cross-functional accessibility strategy at CVS Health—conducting audits, building metrics, authoring VPATs, and training teams to shift accessibility left. Her background in art and technology (SAIC) and hands-on work creating adaptive wearables and VR/AR experiments gives her a rare mix of creative prototyping and rigorous compliance-driven remediation. Snow has led large public-facing accessibility initiatives, mentored designers, and scaled education efforts that reached hundreds, while her freelance and nonprofit work shows a commitment to sustainable, co-designed solutions for disabled users.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Cross-registration, Design, Cross-registration, Design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Design Studies, Master of Design Studies at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
English, Chinese