Jenny Lu joined DREDF as a Public Policy Research Fellow in November 2024. Her advocacy and research focus on public transportation, design of public rights of way, and technology that attune to diverse sensory spatial experiences. She is interested in how people’s mobility and daily spatial experiences are promoted as well as constrained in public spaces.
Her interests in these topics emerged from her research work on the DeafBlind community and their spatial experiences based on touch and proprioception. In her work, she aims to apply these findings to making policy recommendations on transportation, especially for Deaf and DeafBlind users. In the community, she also organizes an ASL political education reading group related to labor, disability, and the political economy. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and UChicago, and has numerous publications in cognitive science and linguistics journals.
Jenny received her B.A. in Psychology from Wellesley College and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago. Her Ph.D. dissertation was awarded the Saller Dissertation Prize.
