Aaleyah is a PhD student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. She is advised by Dr. James Fogarty and Dr. Jennifer Mankoff. She completed her undergraduate studies at UMBC, where she majored in Computer Science. She is a GEM fellow and ARCS Foundation Scholar.

Her research in accessibility explores the opportunities and tensions in improving AI-based technologies to equitably support people with disabilities who hold intersecting marginalized identities. She is also interested in communication access for multilingual people with disabilities who have diverse communication patterns. You can find Aaleyah’s work at: https://aaleyahlewis.github.io/.