The People of CREATE include, over our first two years, 9 associate directors; 29 postdocs, visitors and faculty; 2 staff (and growing!); and almost 200 students.
Directors
Jennifer Mankoff, Director
Richard E. Ladner Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Director, Make4all Lab
Mark Harniss, Director for Education

Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine
Director, Center for Technology and Disability Studies and UW Disability Studies Program
Anat Caspi, Associate Director
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Director, Taskar Center for Accessible Technology
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
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
James Fogarty, Associate Director
Jon 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
Richard Ladner, Founding Director for Education Emeritus
Professor Emeritus, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Principal Investigator, AccessComputing and AccessCSforAll
Kat Steele, Associate Director
Albert S. Kobayashi Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Ability & Innovation Lab and AMP Lab
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
Additional faculty
Sarah Marie Coppola

Assistant Teaching Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Kim Ingraham

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

Associate Professor of English
Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Julie Kientz
Amy J. Ko

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

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

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

Assistant Teaching Professor, Computing & Software Systems, UW Bothell
Postdocs
Alexandra Portnova

Postdoctoral Researcher, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Our news postdocs for academic year 2023-24 are to be announced.
As for our past postdocs, here’s where they’ve landed:
- Abigale Stangl: Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design
- 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
Visiting faculty
Matthew Butler

Associate Professor, Department of Human Centred Computing, Monash University, Australia
Visiting scholar, hosted by Jen Mankoff and the Make4all Lab Jan 30 to Feb 24.
Staff
Liz Diether-Martin
Kathleen Quin Voss
Alumni visiting faculty and scholars
Emily Whiting

Associate Professor, Computer Science, Boston University
Visiting Scholar, Human Centered Design & Engineering, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, September 2022 – June 2023