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Advisory Board

The CREATE Advisory Board is composed of leaders in accessibility and accessible design. The board helps guide and amplify our work in accessibility research, education, and translation.

Amy Hurst, a white woman with brown hair and glasses, holding a microphone and talking in front of a large display screen that casts a purple light.
Amy Hurst, she/her

Amy Hurst

Associate Professor, New York University (NYU) with joint appointments in Occupational Therapy, and Human Development and the Technology, Culture and Society Department in the Tandon School of Engineering. Director, NYU Ability Project

Hurst website

Shaun Kane has grey hair and a grey beard and bright green glasses. In this image he is posing in front of a frozen lake in Iceland.
Shaun K. Kane, he/him

Shaun K. Kane

Research scientist in Responsible AI at Google Research. Founder, the Superhuman Computing Lab at CU Boulder

Kane website

Jonathan Lazar, with a big smile and wearing a suit and multi-colored tie.
Jonathan Lazar (he/him)

Jonathan Lazar

Professor, College of Information Studies (iSchool) University of Maryland
Executive Director, Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA)
Core faculty, Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL)

Lazar website

ChrisTiana ObeySumner: a Black, queer, non-binary, and multiply disabled researcher in front of a bright red background
ChrisTiana ObeySumner (they/them)

ChrisTiana ObeySumner

Master of Public Administration (MPA), Master in Not-for-Profit Leadership (MPL). CEO and principal consultant of Epiphanies of Equity LLC, a social equity consulting firm specializing in change management, social and organizational psychology, intersectional equity and liberation, and disability justice.

ObeySumner website

Ebele Okoli, a smiling African American woman with shoulder length hair, wearing a tan blazer.
Ebele Okoli, she/her

Ebele Okoli

Business Program Manager for Microsoft’s Accessibility Innovation Program. Mental Health and Intersectionality Program Lead, Microsoft.

Okoli website

Past Advisory Board members

We thank these former Advisory Board members for their perspective and expertise in guiding CREATE’s work.

  • Mary Bellard, Principal Innovation Architect Lead, Microsoft and Microsoft AI for Accessibility program manager
  • Rory A. Cooper, FISA Foundation – Paralyzed Veterans of America Distinguished Professor; Founder and Director of Human Engineering Research Laboratories
  • Juan E. Gilbert, Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor & Chair, Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department, University of Florida