Sara Hendren, Program Fellow in Education Policy, is a humanist in tech—a design researcher, artist, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering. Her book What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World explores the places where disability meets design, an inventive tradition of remaking our everyday tools and environments that also carries the highest human stakes. It was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR and the winner of a Science in Society Journalism award. Her work has been widely exhibited in museum exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections at MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt. She was a 2018 National Fellow at New America; she was also a Public Scholar awardee from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She will use her fellowship to research and write about the future of adult education and workforce development for people with developmental disabilities.
