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People of CREATE

Leadership
Associate Directors
Faculty
Postdocs
Visiting Faculty
Alumni

CREATE is a consortium of innovators from the University of Washington’s computer science, mechanical engineering, human-centered design and engineering, information school, and rehabilitation medicine and disability studies.

Leadership

Jennifer Mankoff speaking about CREATE's mission.

Jennifer Mankoff, Director

Richard E. Ladner Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Director, Make4all Lab

Mankoff CREATE profile
jmankoff@cs.uw.edu
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Mark Harniss a white man in his 50s with short brown hair and blue eyes, standing in front of fall-colored leaves.

Mark Harniss, Director for Education

Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine

Director, Center for Technology and Disability Studies and UW Disability Studies Program

Harniss faculty page
mharniss@uw.edu
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Olivia Banner, a white woman with a warm smile and smiling eyes

Olivia Banner,
Director of Strategy and Operations

Dr. Banner joins CREATE January 2024!


oliviapb@cs.uw.edu
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Headshot of Kathleen Q. Voss, a white woman with blonde-brown hair, wearing blue eyeglasses

Kathleen Quin Voss,
Community Engagement and Partnerships Manager


Voss LinkedIn page
kqvoss@cs.uw.edu

Headshot of Liz Diether-Martin, a white 50+ woman wearing brown glasses, a brown jacket and standing in front of a garden fence

Liz Diether-Martin,
Digital Content Developer and Editor


Diether-Martin LinkedIn page
lizdm@uw.edu

Associate Directors

Anat Caspi, a white woman smiling into the camera. She is wearing a purple blouse.

Anat Caspi, Associate Director

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Director, Taskar Center for Accessible Technology

Caspi CREATE profile
Caspi faculty page
uwtcat@uw.edu
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Headshot of Heather Feldner, smiling brightly. She is a white woman with short brown and grey hair, and wears dark rimmed glasses, a gray shirt and black sweater.

Heather Feldner, Associate Director

Assistant Professor, UW Medicine Rehabilitation Medicine: Physical Therapy

Core Faculty, Disability Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Technology and Disability Studies

Director, IMPACT Collaboratory

Feldner CREATE profile

Feldner faculty page
hfeldner@uw.edu
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Headshot of Leah Findlater, smiling warmly. She is a white woman with brown hair.

Leah Findlater, Associate Director

Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering

Adjunct Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Director, Inclusive Design Lab

Findlater CREATE profile
Findlater faculty page
leahkf@uw.edu
Google Scholar

Candid photo of James Fogarty smiling. He is a white man with, in this photo, neatly combed short brown hair.

James Fogarty, Associate Director

Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Fogarty CREATE profile
Fogarty faculty page
jfogarty@cs.uw.edu
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Jon Froehlich, CREATE Associate Director and Allen School faculty member

Jon E. Froehlich, Associate Director

Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Core Faculty, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments

Director, Makeability Lab 

PI, Project Sidewalk

Froehlich CREATE profile
Froehlich faculty page
jonf@cs.uw.edu
Google Scholar

Headshot of Katherine M. Steele, smiling warmly. She is a white woman with long brown hair.

Katherine M. Steele, Associate Director

Albert S. Kobayashi Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Director, Neuromechanics & Mobility Lab and AMP Lab

Steele CREATE profile
Steele faculty page
kmsteele@uw.edu
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Jacob O. Wobbrock, a 40-something white man with short hair, a beard, and glasses. He is smiling in front of a white board.

Jacob O. Wobbrock, Associate Director,
Founding Co-Director Emeritus

Professor, The Information School

Adjunct Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Director, ACE Lab

Wobbrock CREATE profile
Wobbrock faculty page
wobbrock@uw.edu
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Faculty members

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Headshot of Hala Annabi. She has long brown hair and wears a stylish sleeveless blouse.

Hala Annabi

Associate Professor and MSIM Program Chair, The Information School

Annabi faculty page
hpannabi@uw.edu
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Headshot of Maya Cakmak She is smiling cheerfully and wearing a bright yellow scarf.

Maya Cakmak

Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Cakmak faculty page
mcakmak@uw.edu
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Sarah Coppola, a white woman with long, black curly hair. She is smiling at the camera and the background is blurred.

Sarah Marie Coppola

Assistant Teaching Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering

Coppola faculty page
scoppola@uw.edu
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Headshot of Rania Hussein, a woman smiling warmly, wearing a blue hijab and white lab coat.

Rania Hussein

Assistant Teaching Professor, Computing and Networking, Data Science

Hussein faculty page
rhussein@uw.edu

Headshot of Kim Ingraham, who is smiling while standing in front of the cherry blossoms on UW's campus. She is a white woman with long wavy strawberry blonde hair.

Kim Ingraham

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering. Director, Ingraham Lab

Ingraham faculty page
kingra@uw.edu
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Headshot of Stephanie Kerschbaum, a white woman with short, red hair wearing a suit and pearls

Stephanie Kerschbaum

Associate Professor of English. Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric

Kerschbaum faculty page
kersch.uw@gmail.com
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Julie Kientz, a white woman with medium-long brown hair and brown eyes. She is smiling, wearing a denim jacket with arms crossed, in front of a green hedge

Julie Kientz

Professor and Chair, Human Centered Design & Engineering. Director, Computing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab

Kientz faculty page
jkientz@uw.edu@uw.edu
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Amy J. Ko, a 40-something white/Asian woman with brown hair and black rimmed cat eye classes. She is smiling, head tilted.

Amy J. Ko

Professor, The Information School and Program Chair for Informatics. Director, Code & Cognition Lab

Ko faculty page
ajko@uw.edu
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Headshot of Richard Ladner. He has grey hair and beard and is wearing a blue shirt and colorful tie.

Richard Ladner, Founding Director for Education Emeritus

Professor Emeritus, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Principal Investigator, AccessComputing and AccessCSforAll

Ladner CREATE profile
Ladner faculty page
ladner@cs.uw.edu
Google Scholar

Headshot of Kevin Lin, a smiling light-skinned East Asian young adult with short black hair. He is wearing a white button down shirt and a black hoodie.

Kevin Lin

Assistant Teaching Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Co-director, Center for Learning, Computing, and Imagination

Lin personal page
kevinl@cs.uw.edu

Headshot of Meredith Ringel Morris, a middle-aged white woman with curly light brown hair.

Meredith Ringel Morris

Affiliate Professor, The Information School and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Director and Principal Scientist of the People + AI Research team at Google Research

Morris faculty page
merrie@google.com
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Headshot of Sushil K. Oswal in clear glasses. He is wearing a dark blue button-down shirt with a blue suit coat.

Sushil K. Oswal

Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and an affiliate faculty in the Disability Studies Program

Oswal faculty page
oswal@uw.edu
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Headshot of Wanda Pratt with colorful highlights in their hair.

Wanda Pratt

Professor, The Information School and Adjunct Professor, University of Washington Medical School, Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics

Pratt faculty page
wpratt@uw.edu

Ana Pinto da Silva, brown hair, brown eyes, smiling broadly and holding a framed certificate of recognition from the County of Orange.

Ana Pinto da Silva

Associate Teaching Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE). Director, Master of Human Computer Interaction + Design (MHCI+D)

Pinto da Silva page
apdsilva@uw.edu
LinkedIn profile

Headshot of Katharina Reinecke. She is smiling into the camera.

Katharina Reinecke

Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Reinecke faculty page
reinecke@cs.uw.edu
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Prof. Steve Tanimoto, smiling in a black turtleneck shirt in the Allen Center atrium. Photo credit: Bruce Hemingway

Steve Tanimoto

Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Tanimoto faculty page
tanimoto@cs.uw.edu
Google Scholar

Annuska Zolyomi, a Latina woman with dark brown, curly hair smiling warmly

Annuska Zolyomi

Assistant Professor, Computing & Software Systems, UW Bothell

Zolyomi faculty page
annuska@uw.edu
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CREATE postdoctoral fellows

Stacy Hsueh, an Asian woman. She is smiling, looking away from the camera, against a bright background

Stacy Hsueh

Postdoctoral Researcher, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Hsueh research page
shsueh@cs.uw.edu
ACM profile

headshot of Jazette Johnson wearing a white shirt and amber colored blazer. She is smiling warmly.

Jazette Johnson

Postdoctoral Researcher, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Goal: Explore the impact of AI-generated images on adults and elders with intellectual and developmental disabilities—persuasive and difficult-to-detect misinformation in particular.

Johnson research page
jazettej@cs.uw.edu
Google Scholar link

Headshot of Tamanna Motohar. She is wearing glasses and a colorful hijab, smiling at the camera, standing against a plain light gray background

Tamanna Motahar

Postdoctoral Researcher, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Goal: Design robotic arms to aid in self-care activities and social participation for people with no or limited upper body functionality.

Motohar lab page
tmotahar@uw.edu
Google Scholar link

Headshot of Bethany Sloane. Bethany has long, brown hair, gold glasses, and is wearing a green sweater. She is outside with pine tree’s and a blue sky in the background.

Bethany M. Sloane

Postdoctoral Researcher, UW Medicine – Rehabilitation Medicine

Research focus: powered mobility and assistive technology interventions for young children with cerebral palsy.

Sloane faculty page
sloaneb@uw.edu
Research Gate link

Participating UW Postdoctoral Researchers

We are pleased to have postdoctoral researchers from a variety of UW departments and schools working and collaborating with CREATE.

Kelly Avery Mack, a white, femme-presenting person with curly light brown hair shaved close on one side wearing a green blazer.

Kelly Avery Mack

Postdoctoral Researcher, Human Centered Design and Engineering with CREATE associate director Leah Findlater. Goal: educating generative AI users about disability representation.

Headshot of EmmaMcDonnell, with pine trees and distant water in the background. She is wearing a light purple blazer and gazing into the distance.

Emma J. McDonnell

Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Engineering, co-appointed in the iSchool. Goal: Explore how accessibility and disability studies perspectives could inform the design of health-focused technologies.

Headshot of Anthony Osuna, smiling warmly at the camera and dressed in a suit and tie. He has short, dark hair and a well-groomed appearance.

Anthony Osuna

Clinical Psychologist. Psychology Fellow, Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic. Research Fellow, Center for Child Health, Behavior, & Development

Visiting faculty

Jason Wiese

Headshot of Jason Wiese

Associate Professor, Kahlert School of Computing at University of Utah and Director, Personal Data and Empowerment Lab. Hosted by Jen Mankoff, Autumn 2024.

Jason Wiese web page
jason.wiese@utah.edu

Alumni

Past postdoctoral researchers

  • Abigale Stangl: Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design
  • Kim Ingraham: Assistant Professor, UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Maitraye Das: Assistant Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University
  • Momona Yamagami: Assistant Professor at Rice University Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Sasha Portnova: Lab Engineer, Steele Lab

Past visiting faculty and scholars

Matthew Butler, Associate Professor, Department of Human Centred Computing, Monash University, Australia. Visiting scholar, hosted by Jen Mankoff and the Make4all Lab. 2022-2023.

Emily Whiting, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Boston University. Visiting Scholar in Human Centered Design & Engineering and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. 2022 – 2023.