DO-IT Mentors
Mentors encourage DO‑IT 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