Grace Cope is a User Experience Designer at ITHAKA Labs, where they focus on creating accessible and intuitive user experiences for the JSTOR Access in Prison initiative. Her work includes facilitating design thinking workshops, conducting discovery research, and prototyping solutions that fit people’s needs. Before joining ITHAKA, Grace worked as an academic researcher, using design to translate high-level findings into accessible insights for government and industry. Grace holds a BA in Visual Art from the University of Florida and an MS in Integrative Biology from Kennesaw State University. Continuously informed by art, culturally grounded practices, and political education, Grace teaches Jewish songs in carceral spaces.