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SPEAKER: Women with disabilities[br]in academic careers.

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SHERYL BURGSTAHLER: I'm Sheryl[br]Burgstahler, PI and director

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of Access Advance,[br]a project hosted

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by the University[br]of Washington where

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we are working to[br]increase the participation

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and advancement of women with[br]disabilities in academic STEM

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careers.

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CECILIA ARAGON: My[br]name is Cecilia Aragon.

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I'm a faculty member[br]at the University

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of Washington in Seattle.

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And I am a Latina and the[br]first Latina full professor

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in the College of Engineering.

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My disability occurred after I[br]had already been a professor.

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SHIRI AZENKOT: My[br]name is Shiri Azenkot,

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and I'm an associate[br]professor at Cornell Tech.

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Having a disability has[br]given me a unique perspective

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on problem solving.

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I've had to learn[br]how to communicate

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my needs to other people in a[br]way that is not intimidating.

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I have a visual impairment.

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It would really help me if[br]you could do the following.

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ELAINE SHORT: My[br]name is Elaine Short.

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I'm an assistant professor[br]at Tufts University

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in the Computer[br]Science Department.

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I have a rare form of muscular[br]dystrophy, an adult onset

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form of muscular[br]dystrophy, which means

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I have a mobility impairment.

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For me right now,[br]the big challenges

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are around travel and[br]also just generally sort

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of physical[br]inaccessibility of spaces.

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Do the automatic door openers[br]work on all the buildings?

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Really being strategic[br]around what travel I do,

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where I travel to, and[br]how I do travel so that I

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am involved in my community.

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One of the best places to[br]network is at grant meetings,

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because it's all faculty[br]and it's often much easier

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to get to DC for a[br]grant meeting than it

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is to travel internationally[br]for a conference.

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SHERYL:[br]How can departments

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get started in welcoming[br]women with disabilities?

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SHIRI : Step number one[br]is just education and awareness

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and realizing that[br]there might be

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faculty who have disabilities,[br]who have specific needs.

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CECILIA: The[br]department chair

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has to make a special effort to[br]make assistant professors feel

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welcome, especially if they[br]have an invisible disability.

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They often end up putting[br]in hours of extra work

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just to be able to create[br]the illusion that they

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are fully-abled.

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If the disability services[br]office is funded centrally

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and there is no cost[br]to the department,

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then the department[br]chair thinks,

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oh, I want my staff to be[br]as productive as possible

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and there's no cost to me.

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SHERYL: Explore[br]practices that can make faculty

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careers more equitable for[br]women with disabilities

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at uw.edu/doit/programs/advance.

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SPEAKER: Access advance is[br]funded by the National Science

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Foundation, grant numbers[br]HRD-2017017 and HRD-2017054.

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Any questions, findings, and[br]conclusions or recommendations

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expressed in this material[br]are those of the author

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and do not necessarily[br]reflect the views

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of the federal government.

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Copyright 2022.

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Permission is granted[br]to copy these materials

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for educational[br]non-commercial purposes

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provided the source[br]is acknowledged.

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