Pamela
My name is Pamela. I grew up in St. Paul, MN.
Brianna Blaser
Brianna Blaser is a co-PI of AccessComputing. Her work includes direct interventions for individuals with disabilities and working with faculty, employers, and other stakeholders to create institutional change. Brianna has a PhD in women studies and a background in diversity and career development in STEM education and careers.
Scott Bellman
Scott Bellman, DO-IT Center Director, serves as PI of the NSF-funded Neuroscience for Neurodiverse Learners project and is the UW PI and West Coast Hub Leader of the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson Alliance TAPDINTO-STEM. Scott serves as Co-PI of the NSF-funded SEEN Tech Professionals project and Co-PI of AccessUR2PhD, funded by the Computing Research Association. He is Director of Diversity at the UW Center for Neurotechnology, and an editor of the book Perspectives of STEM Students with Disabilities.
Terrill Thompson
Terrill Thompson is the manager of the IT Accessibility Team at the UW. He promotes information technology (IT) accessibility by developing resources, delivering lectures and workshops, providing consultation to a wide variety of constituents, and conducting research.
Richard Ladner
Richard Ladner is a professor emeritus in computer science and engineering at the UW. In addition to organizing programs for students with disabilities in computing, his research interests include accessibility technology research, especially technology for people who are deaf, deaf-blind, hard-of-hearing, and blind. He was the previous PI for AccessComputing.
Roadshows, Tours, and TechNights for Children with Hearing Impairments
For several years, Carnegie Mellon’s Women@SCS (School of Computer Science) has hosted a series of computing-related informal learning events and activities for local children. They successfully extended this outreach program to students from the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD). Activities included interactive roadshow presentations to children and teachers, weekly technology skills sessions called TechNights, tours of Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) computing-related departments, and a one-day workshop.
Nicole
My name is Nicole. I am blind, and I’m a senior majoring in computer science at Stanford University with a focus in human computer interaction.
Lewis
My name is Lewis. I graduated with a Masters degree in computer science at the University of South Carolina.
Kavita
My name is Kavita. I am a PhD student in computer science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and I plan on graduating in three years.
Katie
My name is Katie. I am a program manager (PM) for a user experience team at Microsoft. I manage software features, rather than people.
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