Kat Vellos is a Senior UX designer and facilitator with a passion for helping people connect authentically. She’s the founder and facilitator of Bay Area Black Designers which is Silicon Valley’s largest unofficial ERG for Black designers. She’s researched, designed, and advised on the user experience of countless flows in digital products serving millions of people at companies like Slack, Pandora, and the first iteration of Samsung’s Bixby. In her new book We Should Get Together, she’s turned her UX expertise towards combating the loneliness epidemic by helping people around the world cultivate thriving adult friendships and healthy workplace cultures.