Committees
Conference Chairs
![Marta Cuciurean-zapan](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marta-300x300.png)
Marta Cuciurean-zapan
Co-chair
Marta Cuciurean-Zapan is a design researcher and Senior Director based in IDEO’s Chicago studio. She’s a six-time EPIC presenter and facilitator since 2014. As a co-lead of Research and Insights at IDEO in North America, she is focused on building innovative research approaches, futures perspectives, and the intersection of content, belonging, and culture in teamwork. Marta brings this lens across industries, including mobility and financial services. Her previous work includes user experience at Uptake, pioneering an industrial analytics platform, and Conifer Research. Marta also teaches human centered research and design at DePaul University. She has an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Temple University and a BA in Anthropology and Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University. She enjoys hanging out, arts and crafts with her daughter, and running slowly through Chicago’s city streets and parks.
![evan hanover](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Evan-300x300.png)
evan hanover
Co-chair
Evan Hanover is an anthropologist and Director at Conifer Research in Chicago. At Conifer, he is passionate about his teams bringing keen anthropological and semiotic lenses to their work. He has done this for clients on topics ranging from healthcare to boating to innovation ethics. He has been an EPIC regular since 2014—presenting, serving on the Pecha Kucha and Tutorials Committees, and occasionally just attending as a civilian. Evan has degrees in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and Cornell University and continues to be surprised and delighted daily that he is using them. In his less ethnographic moments, he tries to make his family laugh, does production photography for several Chicago storefront theaters, and practices the art of soup making.
Case Studies
![ryoko imai | Co-chair](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Ryoko-300x300.png)
ryoko imai | Co-chair
Hitachi
![lee cesafsky | Co-chair](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Lee-300x300.png)
lee cesafsky | Co-chair
Meta (via Magnit)
![gillian bowan](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Gillian-300x300.png)
gillian bowan
Atlassian
![yuliya grinberg](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Yuliya-300x300.png)
yuliya grinberg
Drew University
![jordan kraemer](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Jordan-300x300.png)
jordan kraemer
Anti-Defamation League
![pushpinder lubana](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Pushpinder-300x300.png)
pushpinder lubana
PayPal
![mithula naik](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mithula-Naik-300x300.jpg)
mithula naik
Canadian Digital Service, Government of Canada
![juliana saldarriaga](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Juliana-300x300.png)
juliana saldarriaga
A Piece of Pie
![michael thomas](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Michael-300x300.png)
michael thomas
Space Doctors
![lindsey wallace](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Lindsey-300x300.png)
lindsey wallace
Cisco
Papers
![karl mendonca | Co-chair](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Karl-300x300.png)
karl mendonca | Co-chair
![jillian powers | Co-chair](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Jillian-300x300.png)
jillian powers | Co-chair
JP Morgan Chase
![tiffany romain](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Tiffany-300x300.png)
tiffany romain
Intel
![selene camargo correa](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Selene-300x300.png)
selene camargo correa
IQVIA
![todd carmody](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Todd-300x300.png)
todd carmody
Gemic
![laura forlano](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Laura-F-300x300.png)
laura forlano
Northeastern University
![babitha george](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Babitha-300x300.png)
babitha george
Quicksand
![Sophie goodman](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sophie-300x300.png)
Sophie goodman
SEC Newgate Australia
![Oskar korKman](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Oskar-300x300.png)
Oskar korKman
Alice Labs
![peter levin](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Peter-1-300x300.png)
peter levin
![Louise vang jensen](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Louise-300x300.png)
Louise vang jensen
Is It a Bird
PechaKucha
![letizia nardi | Co-chair](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Letizia-300x300.png)
letizia nardi | Co-chair
InProcess
![laura reiss | Co-chair](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Laura-R-300x300.png)
laura reiss | Co-chair
EY Design
![sue falkner](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sue-300x300.png)
sue falkner
Intel
![almina karya odabasi](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Almina-300x300.png)
almina karya odabasi
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
![Meena Kothandaraman](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Meena-300x300.png)
Meena Kothandaraman
twig+fish
![Rogerio Lourenco](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Rogerio-300x300.png)
Rogerio Lourenco
Cross Project Resources
![katherine metzo](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Katherine-300x300.png)
katherine metzo
Lowes Companies Inc.
![Nora morales](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Nora-300x300.png)
Nora morales
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa
![brandy parker](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Brandy-300x300.png)
brandy parker
IDEO
Visual Ethnography
![Charley Scull | Co-chair](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Charlie-300x300.png)
Charley Scull | Co-chair
![Ruchika Muchhala](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Ruchika-300x300.png)
Ruchika Muchhala
Ipsos
Graduate Colloquium
![Matt Bernius | chair](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Matt-300x300.png)
Matt Bernius | chair
Code for America
![jasmin goodman](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Jasmin-300x300.png)
jasmin goodman
J Michelle Group
Learning & Networking Week
![Jamie Sherman | chair](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Jamie-Sherman-271x300.png)
Jamie Sherman | chair
Esri
Site Chair
![Kim Erwin](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Kim-300x300.png)
Kim Erwin
Institute of Design at Illinois Tech
Workshop Chairs
![Jenny Rabodzeenko](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Jenny.png)
Jenny Rabodzeenko
Senior UX Researcher, Allstate Insurance Co.
![Naomi Ito](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Naomi.png)
Naomi Ito
Design Researcher & Strategist | Graduate Student, Institute of Design at Illinois Tech & the Stuart School of Business
Accessibility
![Kate Mesh](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Kate--300x300.png)
Kate Mesh
Open Inclusion
![Emily Nickolson](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Emily-300x300.png)
Emily Nickolson
Amazon
![Gregory Weinstein](https://2023.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Gregory-300x300.png)
Gregory Weinstein
CVS Health