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Envisioning Universal Design: Creating an Inclusive Society -- October 2-3, 2003

V. Appendix A: Partcipants

Bryan Bell
Founder & Executive Director
Design Corps
Raleigh, NC

Betty Jo Berland, Ph.D.
Special Assistant to the Director
National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research
US Department of Education
Washington, DC

Jim Bostrom
Senior Accessibility Specialist
Disability Rights Section
US Department of Justice

Facilitator
Todd D. Chester, M.S.
Senior Consultant
Volunteer Services
AARP
Washington, DC

Richard Duncan, MRP
Coordinator of Training
The Center for Universal Design
College of Design
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

Valerie Fletcher
Executive Director
Adaptive Environments
Boston, MA.

Ramon Garcia, MUP
Program Manager for Outreach and Policy Studies
IDEA Center and the RERC on
Universal Design at Buffalo
School of Architecture & Planning
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

Donald Garfield
Writer and Recorder
Baltimore, MD

Susan M. Goltsman, FASLA
Principal
Moore Iacofano Goltsman, Inc.
Berkeley, CA

Ricardo Gomes, IDSA
Chair/Associate Professor
Design & Industry Department
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA

Bradford C. Grant
Chair, Department of Architecture
Hampton University
Hampton, VA

Paul Grayson, AIA
Private Consultant
Winchester, MA

Leon Harper, MA
President
Leon Harper & Assoc., Inc.
Housing Consultants
Dale City, VA

Aaron Koch
Acting Executive Director
Mayors' Institute on City Design
Washington, DC

Andrew S. Kochera
Senior Policy Advisor
AARP Public Policy Institute
Washington, DC

Eileen B. Mason
Senior Deputy Chairman
National Endowment for the Arts
Washington, DC

Steven Mendelsohn
Attorney
New York, NY

James Mueller, BID, MA
Chair, Universal Design Section
Industrial Designers Society of America
Chantilly, VA

Abir Mullick, M.C.R.P., M.A.
Associate Professor of Architecture
Project Director
IDEA Center and the RERC on
Universal Design at Buffalo
School of Architecture and Planning
University at Buffalo
Buffalo NY

Elaine Ostroff, Ed.M
Director
Global Universal Design Educator's Network
Founding Director
Adaptive Environments
Westport, MA

Karen Peffley
Assistant to the Advisor
Disability and Development
The World Bank
Washington, DC

William Peterson, MS
Program Manager
National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research
US Department of Education
Washington, DC

Jon Pynoos, Ph.D.
UPS Foundation Professor of Gerontology, Policy, and Planning
Director, National Resource Center on Supportive Housing & Home Modification
Andrus Gerontology Center
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Laurie Ringaert, B.S., BMR-OT, M.S.
Director
The Center for Universal Design
North Carolina State University
College of Design
Raleigh, NC

John P.S. Salmen, AIA
President
Universal Designers & Consultants, Inc.
Publisher - Universal Design Newsletter
Takoma Park, MD

Jennifer Skulski
Director of Marketing & Special Projects
National Center on Accessibility
Bloomington, IN

Jeffrey Speck
Design Director
National Endowment for the Arts
Washington, DC

Diane Sprague
Housing Policy Specialist
Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
St. Paul, MN

Edward Steinfeld, Arch. D., AIA
Professor of Architecture
Director
IDEA Center and the RERC on
School of Architecture and Planning
Universal Design at Buffalo
Buffalo NY

Molly Follette Story, M.S., I.D.S.A.
Research Coordinator
The Center for Universal Design
North Carolina State University
President
Human Spectrum Design, L.L.C.
Santa Rosa, CA

M. Beth Tauke, M.A., M.F.A.
Program Manager
IDEA Center and the RERC on
Universal Design at Buffalo
School of Architecture & Planning
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

Paula Terry
Director
Office for AccessAbility
National Endowment for the Arts
Washington, DC

Lois Thibault
Coordinator of Research
US Access Board
Washington, DC

Leslie Kanes Weisman
Associate AIA
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University Heights
Newark, NJ

Betty Jo White, Ph.D.
Professor of Housing and Coordinator
Universal Design
Demonstration and Research Facilities
College of Human Ecology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS

Vanessa Williamson
Director
Professional Practice Academies & Networks
The American Institute of Architects
Washington, DC

Leslie Young
Design Director
The Center for Universal Design
North Carolina State University
College of Design
Raleigh, NC

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