Jordana L. Maisel, PhD

Dr. Maisel is Director of Research Activities at the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA), located within the School of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo (UB). She currently serves as a Project Director in the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment (RERC-UD) and the RERC on Accessible Public Transportation. She is also an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning at UB. Dr. Maisel’s recent work includes projects on the effectiveness of universal design and complete streets, eligibility criteria for paratransit, and the development of voluntary universal design standards. She has lectured at numerous conferences across the country and has written many peer-reviewed articles. She co-authored the first textbook on universal design, Universal Design: Creating Inclusive Environments (Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012). She is also co-editor of Inclusive Design (Routledge, forthcoming) and Accessible Public Transportation (Routledge, forthcoming).