Lea Verou

PhD, Researcher · MIT

Lea has been improving the Web for nearly two decades. In her 14 years in the CSS WG, she designed many features you use daily. As a twice elected W3C TAG member, she helped document the Web’s Design Principles . She is also a TC39 delegate, and a WHATWG contributor. In 2025, she was awarded Pathfinder for Standards by the OpenJS Foundation , for her overall work and impact. Lea is passionate about making complex concepts approachable, through her talks , books , and open source work . She holds a PhD from MIT , where she spent a decade researching and teaching at the intersection of usability, design, and web technologies.

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