Today MFAD, special guest speaker Maya Kopytman is a Partner at C&G Partners, specializing in branding, interactive technologies, and websites. She has three decades of design experience, and is internationally recognized for her pioneering work in designing interfaces for a variety of interactive media, from software to location-based applications and websites.

She has led numerous website and identity projects for clients that include NYC Emergency Management, JPMorgan Chase, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, The Optical Society of America, ITHAKA, Heron Foundation, The Teagle Foundation, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Helmsley Charitable Trust, Low Income Investment Fund, American Association for Advancement of Sciences, American Institute of Architects, American School of Oriental Research, and American Institute of Graphic Arts, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Historic Hudson Valley, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and The King Center and its digital archive. She was a senior team member for the acclaimed redesign of the Metropolitan Museum of Art website and has been particularly involved with projects in Indian Country, working with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Pechanga, San Manuel, and the Soboba Bands of Luceño Indians.