Codesign Works

Consulting Services from Carrie Basas, JD, MEd My first job was teaching truck drivers to use computers and enter their fuel tax receipts. I knew nothing about trucking in high school. I noticed in that moment how the systems intended to be built for ease actually caused barriers for the people who were the customers and stakeholders. My career since then has taken me from founding a nonprofit to practicing law, being a law and business professor to leading a government agency. I have also led two disability rights organizations. In all of these settings, I am aware of who is being included and who is being left behind. As a disabled person who spent the first years of their education in a separate school and a first generation college graduate who learned quickly what it meant to try and create spaces of belonging, I see my practice through CoDesign Works as an opportunity to bring cross-sector strategies and insights for social impact.