Veronica Alfaro

Verónica Alfaro is a Design Technologist who works in the intersection between Accessibility and Healthcare through the fields of Human-Centered Design, UX/UI Design, and Information Visualization. She is passionate about the use of technology and design for social good and strives to create projects that serve as conversation starters around ethics in Tech. 

Her most recent work focuses on the design of frameworks for developing customizable Assistive Technologies for people with disabilities and reimagining the use of technology and design to improve the relationship between patients and providers as part of her work in the HiBRID lab at NYU Langone Health. Previously, her research in creating a visualization portal for genetic variation (VizGVar) was published in the Bioinformatics journal by Oxford and she worked as a UX Designer for Lionbridge and Volteo | Intel.

Verónica holds a BE in Industrial Design from the Tecnológico de Costa Rica University and a MPS from NYU ITP. Born and raised in Costa Rica, she is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.