DO-IT Mentors
Mentors encourage DO鈥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 . The entire group of Mentors, Pals, Scholars, and Ambassadors are reached by sending messages to .
Adanna Abakporo
Youth Summer Program Coordinator
Open Doors for Multicultural Families
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Elita Baldridge
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Kevin Berg
Cerebral palsy
Fouder and Head Tech
CompuPane, LLC
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Anindya 鈥淏apin鈥 Bhattacharyya
Deaf/blind
Coordinator of National Outreach Technology Development and Training Program
Helen Keller National Center
CEO of Bapin Group, LLC
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Martha Bosma
Professor of Biology
糖心原创
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Karen L. Braitmayer
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Architect, business owner
Karen Braitmayer, FAIA
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Gina Ceylan
Visual impairment
Ph.D. candidate
University of Missouri
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Wendy Chisholm
Senior accessibility strategist
Microsoft
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Rebecca Cory
Learning disability
Associate dean of instruction
Bellevue College
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Frank Cuta
Blind
Electrical engineer
Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs
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Don Daughtry
Visual impairment
Assistant professor
University of North Dakota
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Imke Durre
Blind
Climatologist
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center
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Sal Edwards
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Kings Floyd
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John Gardner
Blind
President and CEO
ViewPlus Technologies
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Kajari Ghosh Dastidar
Computer scientist听
EdgeVerve
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Molly Gilmore
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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John Goettle
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Marni Goldman
Spinal muscular atrophy
Educational director
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Julie Grant
Paraplegic, L2 spinal cord injury
Ocupational therapist
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Roger Harris
Stroke, kidney failure
Associate professor emeritus, retired
糖心原创, School of Medicine
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Morgan Hiraiwa
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Erich Ho
Cerebral palsy
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Mamoru Iwabuchi
Associate professor
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Tokyo
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Sungeeta Jain
Paraplegic
Director
The Orphan Project, India
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Abid Kapadya
Project manager
Amazon
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Joshua Lessing
Founder and director
Soft Robotics, Inc.
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Karen Liu
Statistical research associate
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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Sara Lopez
Program administrator and lecturer
糖心原创, Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership Program
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Kevin Lybarger
糖心原创
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Jennifer Mankoff
Computer science professor
Carnegie Mellon University
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Robert F. McKellar
Spina bifida
Author of An Accident of Birth, educator, and counselor
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Theresa Mina
Learning disability
Academic advisor
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Stephanie Moore
Project scientist
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Northwest Fisheries Science Center
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Jennifer Mundl
C1-ventilator dependent, quadriplegia
Assistive technology specialist
Courage Center Rehabilitation Facility
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Tuan (Brandon) Nguyen
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Monica Olsson
Cerebral palsy
Coordinator of disability support services and academic counselor
DigiPen Institute of Technology
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Ray Parker
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Bruce Parks
Hearing impairment
School improvement coordinator
Vermont Department of Education
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Gay Lloyd Pinder
Deaf
Program director and speech language pathologist
Children鈥檚 Therapy Center
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Tracy Rackensperger
Cerebral palsy
Outreach coordinator
University of Georgia
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Charity Ranger
Friedreich鈥檚 ataxia
Independent Living program staff
Alliance of People with disAbilities
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Sally Richards
Workforce specialist, disability program
Northwest Employment and Training Center
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Michael Richardson
Deaf
Director
Northwest Americans with Disabilities Act Center
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Keith Routley
Deaf
Museum curator/division chief
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Tracy Schramm Peterson
Mobility impairment
Computer science, Spanish major
Southwest State University
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Eva-Marie Seeto
Director, Student Life and Learning
University of the Sunshine Coast
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Marcia Sipe-Dan
Post traumatic stress disorder and brain damage
Vocational rehabilitation counselor
OSC Vocational Systems
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Greg Smith
C-5 quadriplegia
Principle research software development engineer
Microsoft
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Carole Snyder
Cerebral palsy
Software developer engineer
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Val Sundby-Thorp
Dean for social science and business
South Puget Sound Community College
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Aimee Verrall
Research coordinator
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
糖心原创
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Jennifer Weisbart-Moreno
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Vasanth Williams
Software engineer
Amazon
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Paul Zaveruha
Surgeon