Mary Coburn
Mary B. Coburn was appointed FSU's Vice President for Student Affairs on January 31, 2003. She leads approximately 400 Division of Student Affairs employees who serve over 36,000 students. Her areas of responsibility include: Campus Recreation, Career Center, Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement, Center for Civic Education and Service, Dean of Students (including Orientation, Victims Advocate, and Greek Life), International Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Oglesby Union (including the Student Life Building and the Flying High Circus), University Counseling Center, Student Government Association, Thagard Student Health Center, and University Housing. Coburn, an FSU alumnus, previously served as vice president for Student Affairs of Tallahassee Community College from 1995 until 2002.

Dr. Paul T. Jaeger
Dr. Paul Jaeger is the manager for Research Development at the Information Use Management and Policy Institute at FSU. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies and a J.D. with honors, as well as an M.L.S. and an M.Ed. He is the author of 3 books, more than 30 journal articles, and numerous other publications related to information, policy, and society. Much of his work addresses issues of disability. His most recent book is Understand Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity and Civil Rights (Praeger, 2005).

Terry Thompson
Terry Thompson is a Senior Computer Specialist and a member of the DO-IT Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. Terry is involved in web accessibility and works on seminars nationwide. He has served as the expert contact person for the web site developers at FSU who are currently involved in this project (Accessibility Champions).

Lloyd Tribley
Lloyd is a technology consultant and director of the Real Choice Partnership Project in Tallahassee. He is a member of the Florida State Governor's Working Group on the Americans with Disabilities Act Team on Accessibility. Lloyd is also a member of the FSU Accessibility Champions bringing to the team a wealth of resource from the state perspective and has been instrumental in the initial evaluations. For example, Lloyd provided FSU with a loaner license to Acc Verify/Repair, an accessibility testing tool for this initial evaluation and continues to be a resource for the FSU community. Lloyd will be donating his time to this institute and has agreed to take what we develop to share with the State Task Force.

Jane Flores
Jane is a junior in the College of Information and is also a non-traditional student. A degree in information architecture will allow her to realize her goal of becoming an IT manager. Like most students, Jane uses Blackboard everyday; she also uses the Goldstein Library for reference materials.

Rachel Gerlach
Rachel is a senior majoring in rehabilitation counseling services with a minor in psychology. In her spare time Rachel enjoys surfing the Net and watching movies as well as being an accessibility advocate. Her major, her hobbies, and living with limitations in mobility and tracking have led her to discover that there needs to be a greater sense of awareness about access in technology. Rachel is the president of the ACCESS student group and a member of the FSU’s Accessibility Champions. At these seminars, Rachel hopes to create awareness and hopefully open a few minds up in the process!

Natalie Jean
Natalie is pursuing her master’s degree in library and information studies with a concentration in school library media. She will graduate with both her master’s and certification as a school library media specialist in December 2006. Natalie consistently uses the speech recognition program Dragon Naturally Speaking, a voice to text software to write/dictate material into the computer. However, the environment and training issues prevent her from using this program on campus. This means that she can not utilize this program, her access to the computer, at her work in the library or as a student on campus. Natalie’s vision disabilities also create difficulty for her. She needs a 17” screen to be able to see the computer clearly without any magnifying software.

Jason Learned
Jason is a first year graduate student in urban & regional planning and has Asperger’s Syndrome. He requires little assistive technology, but it is important for Jason for things to be straightforward. HE utilizes his skills in web design to not only help make the web accessible to individuals with disabilities, but to everyone by using clear, sensible design rules.

Roberta "Gabrielle" Reed
Gabrielle is a graduate student in the computer science doctoral program. She is interested in expanding opportunities and participation of minorities, women and persons with disabilities in the computing field. Her research interest is in simplified computer interfaces and on-demand generation if educational materials. As a person with ADHD and deficits in working and short-term memory, Gabrielle is discovering the types of technology that help minimize the impact of any memory related deficit. She uses portable digital memory aids, computer-based assistive agents, selective text readers, word processors, study-guides, and organizers along with paper-based organizers and books-on-tape.

Governor Staten
Governor is a graduate student majoring in history. Text is completely inaccessible to Governor because he is blind, so he uses screen reading software called JAWS, or Job Access With Speed, as well as Kurzweil, an optical character recognition software that reads information on the web and in word documents. Governor also uses Kurzweil to access PDF files and to scan books and other documents. To take notes, Governor uses braillenote.

Nathan Archer
Nathan is the Marketing and Communications Director for the Oglesby Union at Florida State University. His office oversees the creation of promotional materials, including both print and Web, for Florida State Student Activities, the Oglesby Union Art Center, Crenshaw Lanes, Club Downunder, and Union Productions. In his spare time, Nathan volunteers his time and skills, designing for local non-profit agencies including Big Bend Cares and Capital Support Services.

Bea Awoniyi
Bea is one of the assistant dean of students and the director of the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC) at Florida State University. The mission of SDRC is to promote architectural, programmatic, and policy access for students with various types of disabilities and to be a resource for the university community on disability related issues. Bea is also a member of the University of Washington’s DO-IT Team, and the ACCESS Computing team.

Meagan O'Nan
Meagan O'Nan is a graduate student at Florida State in the Visual Disabilities program and also has a MA in Rehabilitation Counseling. She currently works for the Governor's Working Group on the ADA which has allowed her the resources to begin a 508 Accessibility Project on Florida State's campus.

Lindsay Potvin
Lindsay is a recent graduate from the creative writing program in the FSU English department. She is currently employed as the digital media production assistant. She has been instrumental in working with the FEATS team to develop and implement a marketing campaign. She assists in managing production of the FSU web site and is one of the lead writers for faculty and student research and leaderships stories on both the FSU web site and the Blackboard portal.

James Rhoades
James Rhoades is currently an assistant librarian in the Learning Services Department of Robert Manning Strozier Library at Florida State University. He graduated magna cum laude with a B. A. in Philosophy & Classics from the University of Delaware. He then received a M.L.I.S. in Knowledge Management from Florida State University.

Joanna Southerland
Joanna Southerland has managed many technology projects at FSU as the digital media manager. She has been involved with the team who first brought WebMC, a course template system, to FSU. She extended this system into the K-12 system through grants from Jesse Ball DuPont, The Board of Regents, and Sun Microsystems. This system was extended into Central and Eastern Europe through funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The University of Bucharest in Romania now has an online course system and a FSU Online Learning Lab. Throughout the past several years Joanna has worked with the Blackboard team to extend the use of Blackboard as the FSU portal while working with staff all over campus. She managed the development of both: http://campus.fsu.edu and http://www.fsu.edu as well as many other web sites. Her commitment to equal access stems from her son, Phil, who has juvenile diabetes.