Ilianna Ginnis is an access consultant at Architecture & Access and a current PhD Candidate within the Design Health Collab at Monash University. Ilianna has a personal connection to the field of accessibility as her younger sister, Michelle, is a non-verbal communicator with an intellectual disability, which has fuelled Ilianna's dedication to making the built environment more inclusive. Her PhD research speculates on how design processes begin to consider persons with severe and profound intellectual disability and non-verbal communication, allowing designers to integrate users into complex processes as narrators of their own experiences.