Alexandra Dean Grossi is a writer, designer, and disability activist. She began her writing career under the tutelage of series creator David Milch on HBO’s Deadwood and John From Cincinnati.
Born profoundly deaf, Alexandra wears bilateral cochlear implants. She attended mainstream schools, and followed the Oral Education route. On the margins of the Deaf Community, because she didn’t use sign language, she found that she didn’t have any identifiable role models. This lack of representation of “her kind of deafness” in pop culture inspired Alexandra to write her passion project, Oral, around her experiences as a millennial deaf woman learning to “adult.” Alexandra was featured in The New York Times about the lack of representation of the oral deaf experience in film and television.
As an Inclusive Design Activist, Alexandra works as the Lead User Experience Designer for IBM Accessibility. She regularly teaches Inclusive Design as an adjunct professor at the College of Design at North Carolina State University. Alexandra often consults as an accessibility expert on projects, including television shows and films, through her association with Respectability (she is an alum of the 2020 Entertainment Lab). She also gives lectures and serves on panels around disability, accessibility, and inclusive design.
Alexandra is a graduate of Vassar College where she majored in English and Italian with a minor in Film. She completed her Master of Graphic User Experience Design from the College of Design at NCSU.
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