DO-IT Mentors

Mentors encourage DOIT Scholars, Ambassadors, and Pals as they pursue academic programs and careers. Most Mentors have disabilities themselves. They share valuable experiences, insights, and resources with younger participants. Mentors communicate with each other by sending messages to mentors@uw.edu. The entire group of Mentors, Pals, Scholars, and Ambassadors are reached by sending messages to doitchat@uw.edu.

Adanna Abakporo
Youth Summer Program Coordinator
Open Doors for Multicultural Families
 

Elita Baldridge
 

Kevin Berg
Cerebral palsy
Fouder and Head Tech
CompuPane, LLC
www.compupane.net 

Anindya “Bapin” Bhattacharyya
Deaf/blind
Coordinator of National Outreach Technology Development and Training Program
Helen Keller National Center
CEO of Bapin Group, LLC
 

Martha Bosma
Professor of Biology
University of Washington
 

Karen L. Braitmayer
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Architect, business owner
Karen Braitmayer, FAIA
 

Gina Ceylan
Visual impairment
Ph.D. candidate
University of Missouri
 

Wendy Chisholm
Senior accessibility strategist
Microsoft
 

Rebecca Cory
Learning disability
Associate dean of instruction
Bellevue College
 

Frank Cuta
Blind
Electrical engineer
Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs
 

Don Daughtry
Visual impairment
Assistant professor
University of North Dakota
 

Imke Durre
Blind
Climatologist
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center
 

Sal Edwards
 

Kings Floyd
 

John Gardner
Blind
President and CEO
ViewPlus Technologies
 

Kajari Ghosh Dastidar
Computer scientist 
EdgeVerve
 

Molly Gilmore
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
 

John Goettle
 

Marni Goldman
Spinal muscular atrophy
Educational director
 

Julie Grant
Paraplegic, L2 spinal cord injury
Ocupational therapist
 

Roger Harris
Stroke, kidney failure
Associate professor emeritus, retired
University of Washington, School of Medicine
 

Morgan Hiraiwa
 

Erich Ho
Cerebral palsy
 

Mamoru Iwabuchi
Associate professor
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Tokyo
 

Sungeeta Jain
Paraplegic
Director
The Orphan Project, India
 

Abid Kapadya
Project manager
Amazon
 

Joshua Lessing
Founder and director
Soft Robotics, Inc.
 

Karen Liu
Statistical research associate
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
 

Sara Lopez
Program administrator and lecturer
University of Washington, Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership Program
 

Kevin Lybarger
University of Washington
 

Jennifer Mankoff
Computer science professor
Carnegie Mellon University
 

Robert F. McKellar
Spina bifida
Author of An Accident of Birth, educator, and counselor
 

Theresa Mina
Learning disability
Academic advisor
 

Stephanie Moore
Project scientist
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Northwest Fisheries Science Center
 

Jennifer Mundl
C1-ventilator dependent, quadriplegia
Assistive technology specialist
Courage Center Rehabilitation Facility
 

Tuan (Brandon) Nguyen
 

Monica Olsson
Cerebral palsy
Coordinator of disability support services and academic counselor
DigiPen Institute of Technology
 

Ray Parker
 

Bruce Parks
Hearing impairment
School improvement coordinator
Vermont Department of Education
 

Gay Lloyd Pinder
Deaf
Program director and speech language pathologist
Children’s Therapy Center
 

Tracy Rackensperger
Cerebral palsy
Outreach coordinator
University of Georgia
 

Charity Ranger
Friedreich’s ataxia
Independent Living program staff
Alliance of People with disAbilities
 

Sally Richards
Workforce specialist, disability program
Northwest Employment and Training Center
 

Michael Richardson
Deaf
Director
Northwest Americans with Disabilities Act Center
 

Keith Routley
Deaf
Museum curator/division chief
 

Tracy Schramm Peterson
Mobility impairment
Computer science, Spanish major
Southwest State University
 

Eva-Marie Seeto
Director, Student Life and Learning
University of the Sunshine Coast
 

Marcia Sipe-Dan
Post traumatic stress disorder and brain damage
Vocational rehabilitation counselor
OSC Vocational Systems
 

Greg Smith
C-5 quadriplegia
Principle research software development engineer
Microsoft
 

Carole Snyder
Cerebral palsy
Software developer engineer
 

Val Sundby-Thorp
Dean for social science and business
South Puget Sound Community College
 

Aimee Verrall
Research coordinator
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
University of Washington
 

Jennifer Weisbart-Moreno
 

Vasanth Williams
Software engineer
Amazon
 

Paul Zaveruha
Surgeon