Design Thinking for Inclusive Housing
Design thinking achieves two goals: it opens our minds to what’s possible free from constraints and ensures that we think about needs at the margins.
Category: Behind the Scenes
The Kelsey Ayer Station in the News
The Kelsey Ayer Station featured in The San Jose Mercury News discussing the future of Disability-forward housing in San Jose.
One Year In
What a year it’s been — fun and challenging, and full of ideas and questions. Every day brings us closer to our goal of building a new model of inclusive community and permanently changing the housing sector to be a more inclusive one across ability and income.
Reflecting on our series with SPUR
This summer, The Kelsey collaborated with the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, SPUR, on a three part series about inclusivity and cities.
Social Innovation and Change Initiative: Fellow Spotlight
Micaela Connery discusses Harvard Kennedy School’s support of the first Social Innovation and Change Initiative workshops with people of all abilities across the country.
Why I work for The Kelsey
Growing up in San Francisco, it was impossible and has become even more impossible, to ignore the issue of homelessness. As a child and teenager, I volunteered with various nonprofits in the Bay Area that worked with homeless individuals.
Micaela Connery
Micaela co-founded The Kelsey with her cousin Kelsey, who continues to inspire and inform the mission and work today. Micaela has been working on inclusion in communities her entire life.
UVA Today Feature
“My work feels like a really wonderful combination of something that I have a personal connection to while fulfilling a need that not a lot of people are working to address,” she said. According to Connery, one in five people has a disability – a large portion of our population.