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Tuesday, January
22nd
Abstract: In this panel
discussion, several Stanford students with disabilities will discuss how their
disabilities have impacted their lives, the challenges they have faced, their
academic goals, and the assistive technology they employ to be successful
students.
Confirmed Panelists:
- David Stentiford's
Biosketch:
- David Stentiford is a PhD
Candidate in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. His research is
based in the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities, and his
dissertation examines contemporary discourses and practices related to
ecological intervention, that is, the deliberate reorganization of Nature.
David is an avid text-to-speech user.
- Trisha Kulkarni's
Biosketch:
- "I am a freshman at Stanford this
year. At this point in time, I have not declared a major, but I am exploring my
interest in Symbolic Systems, Management Science and Engineering, and Computer
Science. When I was in middle school, I unexpectedly lost my vision to a
retinal detachment and other complications with my eyes, but with the
unwavering support of my family, friends, and educators, I have still been able
to reach my personal and academic goals. Last summer I received a scholarship
from the National Federation of the Blind which
has sparked my involvement in the organization. I am currently co-chair of the
California Association of Blind
Students fundraising committee as well as a proud member of the
National Association of Blind Students. On
the weekend of January 25th, I will be traveling to Washington DC for the NABS
Leadership Summit and Washington Seminar where I will have the opportunity to
learn about legislation surrounding people with disabilities and advocate for
national educational reform to our US senators."
- Zina Jawadi's
Biosketch:
- Zina Jawadi graduated this
past June with a degree in Biology and is now a co-term student in
Bioengineering. She has been involved with disability advocacy on campus
through Power2ACT and the
ASSU Executive Cabinet
and is currently involved with the Stanford Disability Initiative. Outside of
Stanford, Zina is the president of the Hearing Loss Association of America,
California State Association, an affiliate of the Hearing Loss Association
of America, the largest nonprofit representing people with hearing loss in the
US. Zina founded a disability awareness program at her high school,
The Harker School, and previously
researched and created a video about techniques for teaching mainstreamed
students with hearing loss.
- Rachael Wallach's
Biosketch:
- Rachael Wallach is a student
in Stanford's Graduate School of Business and is the founder of
Disrupt Disability, a social
enterprise that has created the first modular wheelchair that a user can
continually customize for function or fashion to their body, environment, and
individual style. She started using a wheelchair when she was 18 years old,
before she went to Cambridge University to study Philosophy. After graduating
she pursued a fast track management training scheme in public administration.
Rachael went on to commission health and social care services on behalf of UK
Local Government and the National Health Service and lead central government
program that built the capacity of health and social care not-for-profits and
helped them win government service contracts. She has been an advisor to the UK
Government’s Office for Disability Issues, was Vice Chair of Scope (the
UK’s largest Disability Charity) and has served on the boards of the
Social Care Institute for Excellence, Community Integrated Care (the UK’s
largest not-for-profit social care provider) and was a founding trustee of the
Global Disability Innovation Hub.
- Evan Feinberg's
Biosketch:
- Evan Feinberg is a PhD
Candidate at Stanford in Computational Biophysics. In his research, Evan works
with Professor Vijay S. Pande on in silico approaches for drug discovery. While
he has struggled with chronic pain and compartment syndrome since his college
days at Yale, Evan has felt empowered to advance the field of chronic pain
management through his research on the µ Opioid Receptor. Most recently,
he has been developing deep neural network architectures to identify lead
molecules for developing new medicines.
Yet to be Confirmed
Panelists:
- Bryce Connor Tuttle's
Biosketch:
- "It took me a while to learn how to
read. Though I loved to hear my mom read aloud or listen to audio books, I
struggled through deciphering each word, unable to piece together the chains of
sounds my classmates could easily create from the letters on the page. In third
grade I was diagnosed with dyslexia. It is a label I have carried with pride
throughout the rest of my life. I credit my dyslexia with my ability to devise
unorthodox solutions. As my uncle says, 'only coming up with one way to spell a
word is terribly uncreative'."
- Brickelle Bro's
Biosketch:
- Brickelle Bro began swimming
at the age of eight and had fibular hemimelia and amniotic band syndrome before
birth, resulting in the amputation of both of legs below the knee. Bro made a
name for herself at the 2011 CanAms and the 2012 Paralympic Trials as she went
on to finish fifth at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. She set American
records in the 1000y free and 1650y free as a high schooler and broke the 1650y
record again as a freshman at Stanford University. Her interests include
volunteering, video editing and production, playing the piano, and hiking. She
has set up a foundation called 'My Feet Don't Stink', which aims to empower
young girls who have an impairment. May 2011 she received the
John Lynch Foundation Exceptional
Star of the Year Award. She was named the 2011 Colorado Disability Swimmer
of the Year.
- Lecture Material:
- Pre-Lecture Slides - 639 Kb pdf file
- Slides - 1.78 Mb pdf file
- Photos - 835 Kb pdf file
- Links:
- Office of Accessible Education
Links:
- Office of Accessible Education
Video: Welcome
to Stanford University
- Guide to the Office
of Accessible Education
- Office
of Accessible Education helps students with disabilities realize their full
potential
- Zina Jawadi's Links:
- The
Invisible Disability by Zina Jawadi
- Zina Jawadi - Hearing Loss
Association of America, California State Association
- David Stentiford's Links:
- Text-to-Speech
Tools and Techniques for Mac and iOS
- The Social Model
of Disability
- Rachael Wallach's Links:
- Disrupt
Disability: designing wheelchairs with a difference
- Web Summitt video
- Disrupt Disability
- Rachael's email
- Evan Feinberg's Link:
- Genesis Therapeutics
- Other Links:
- 2012 Stanford Daily article -
Panel
reflects on life at Stanford with a Disability
- 2014 Stanford Daily article -
An
Overlooked Minority by Aubrie Lee
- Power2ACT
seeks community center for students with disabilities by Edan
Armas
- Brickelle
Bro finds her niche at Stanford by Kit Ramgopal
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