Ella is an alum of UC Berkeley College of Letters & Sciences and of UC Berkeley Law School. She has had a long history of advocacy as an attorney for the rights of disabled people before joining UC Berkeley. Ella is open about having disabilities herself and as a member of the Bay Area American Indian/Alaskan Native community. Her understanding of disability in the United States is as an identity that is deeply intersectional with race, class, gender, sexuality, and...
Derek Coates is the campus Manager of Disability Program Access and lead on the campuswide program access Self-Assessment. He has Master’s Degrees in Sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the California State University, at Fullerton. In 2003, Dr. Coates received his Ph. D in Sociology from Wayne State University and was hired as an Ed Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Studies at U.C. Berkeley as part of a National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research grant. Dr. Coates began his career at U.C. Berkeley in 2004 when he was hired as the campus...
Howa is currently a fourth year studying and researching at the Department of City & Regional planning within the College of Environmental Design. He has been working with the office since his undergraduate freshman year at Berkeley. Some of his work involves in the Loop accessible transportation program, campus accessibility planning, serving on the Coordinating Committee for Removal of Architectual Barriers (CCRAB),...
Steve is an alumnus of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and is originally from Northern Ireland. He has over 20 years’ experience as an investigator and manager. While still living n the UK, he worked as a crime scene investigator, major crime manager, and financial crime investigaor.
He moved to California in 2018 and after almost two years at UCSF investigating privacy incidents and potential HIPAA violations, he moved to DAC at UC Berkeley in October 2020.
As well as reviewing allegations (by students, staff, faculty, and visitors) of...
Faryal is a first-year student majoring in political science at UC Berkeley. As a first-generation Pakistani-American, she is passionate about diversity, equity, and accessibility initiatives. Her work involves supporting the Disability Access and Complaince Office. Aspiring to a career in law, Faryal hopes to advocate for marginalized communities.
Donna was born and raised in the Bay Area. She is an alum of UCSC with a BA in Business Management Economics. From 2014-2020, she supported the Disabled Students' Program as the Business Services Admin. In 2020, she joined UC Berkeley administration and now supports DAC as the Executive Assistant. Go Bears!
