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HAVA TRAINING: Who's Who
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RESNA TA Project - The RESNA TA Project is funded by NIDRR to provide assistance to the Assistive Technology Act grantees as they work to reduce barriers and increase access to assistive technology (AT) devices and services for consumers of all ages with disabilities. The project also provides technical assistance in areas related to universal design, state procurement actions, and funding for AT.
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Speaker Bios - May 7th Audioconference | Speaker Bios - May 13th Webcast
Speaker Bios - May 7th Audioconference
Brian Hancock is an Elections Research Specialist in the Office of Election Administration, Federal Election Commission (FEC), which is responsible for providing assistance with HAVA and has been selected for eventual transfer to the Office of Election Administration created by HAVA. In addition to his primary duties to provide advice and guidance to State and local election administrators, Mr. Hancock edits The FEC Journal of Election Administration, and has written extensively on voting administration and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.Leslie Reynolds is Executive Director of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS). Founded in 1904, NASS is the oldest professional, nonpartisan organization of public officials in the U.S. NASS is a leader in the debate on improving voter registration processes, promoting election reform policies at the state and national levels, and increasing government services available over the Internet. It provide its members with information HAVA on implementation practices, survey results, training, and forums, and regularly consults with the various federal agencies involved with HAVA to build relationships with state governments to effectively implement HAVA. In addition, NASS participates in a coalition of government, civil rights, and disability advocate groups to work together to secure full funding for HAVA.
Diane C. Golden is Director of the Missouri Assistive Technology Council, a program that receives support from the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). The Council has been actively involved in state voting reform initiatives over the past few years. Dr. Golden serves on the Missouri Help America Vote Act State Plan Committee.
Deborah Cook is Project Director for the Washington Assistive Technology Alliance, an assistive technology project supported by NIDRR that serves as a consumer advocacy network providing consultation, funding, and training related to assistive technology devices; legal advice and advocacy; and policy development and legislative action. Ms. Cook is also Assistant to the Director for Workforce Accessibility for the Washington Department of Services for the Blind and Technical Assistance Coordinator for the National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education. She serves on the strategic plan advisory committee for HAVA in Washington State, where she provides technical consultation on accessibility issues related to people with disabilities.
Margaret J. Giannini, M.D., F.A.A.P. has a long and distinguished career in the field of developmental disabilities. Presently, she serves as Director of the Department of Health and Human Services Office on Disability, which oversees the implementation and coordination of disability programs, policies and special initiatives for persons with disabilities, including HAVA grants for research and design for voting equipment, election systems, and voting technology. Earlier, President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Giannini to be Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aging at the Department of Health and Human Services. From 1981-1992, she was Deputy Assistant Chief Medical Director for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where she focused on technology transfer and assistive technology involving all disabilities. President Jimmy Carter appointed Dr. Giannini to be the first Director of the National Institute of Handicapped Research. Dr. Giannini created the largest facility for mentally retarded and the developmentally disabled for all ages and etiologies in the United States and the world in 1950, which later became the first University Center. She is the recipient of numerous national and international awards and recognitions.
Christina Galindo is an attorney and Disability Legal Specialist for the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems. NAPAS is the voluntary national membership association of Protection and Advocacy (P&A) systems and client assistance programs and assumes leadership in promoting and strengthening the role and performance of its members in providing quality legally based advocacy services. Ms. Galindo focuses on HAVA and Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Before joining NAPAS, she worked for two years in Florida as a litigation associate specializing in Title II & III ADA litigation and taught special education students in Miami-Dade and Leon Counties.
M. Nell Bailey currently serves as the Director of the RESNA Technical Assistance Project which provides technical assistance and information to the 56 state assistive technology (AT) programs. The Technical Assistance Project and the state/territory AT programs are funded under the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 and administered by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), U.S. Department of Education.
Ms. Bailey has over 23 years of experience in the disability field, 20 of them working on projects related directly to technology. While employed at a Northern Virginia consulting firm in the early 1980's, she worked on one of the first technology projects funded by the Department of Education-Project EduTech-which provided technical assistance to state and local educators on technology for students with disabilities.
In 1986, she joined the Center for Special Education Technology at the Council for Exceptional Children. She worked as a program specialist responding to requests for information, developing resource products for dissemination, maintaining a resource database, monitoring technology applications and advances, and assisting in the planning and conducting of an annual research symposium.
Speaker Bios - May 13th Webcast
Michael Morris is the chair of the Information Technology Technical Assistance & Training Center (ITTATC) State Initiatives Workgroup and with the Law, Health Policy and Disabilities Center, University of Iowa Law School. The State IT Initiatives Workgroup is a workgroup of ITTATC that collaborates with the RESNA Technical Assistance Project and the Association of Tech Act Projects (ATAP). Earlier in his career, Mr. Morris worked at the United Cerebral Palsy Association, and was counsel to the U.S. Senate Small Business Committee. He was the first-ever Joseph P. Kennedy Fellow in Public Policy and worked for former Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut.Stephen Berger is chair for Voting Systems Standards Project for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE is a non-profit, technical professional association with members in 150 countries. The Voting Systems Standards project is charged with developing a standard to evaluate election voting equipment that will provide technical specifications for electronic, mechanical, and human factors for manufacturers of voting machines or their customers. It includes defining requirements for voting systems to meet the usability and accessibility needs of all voters, including those with disabilities.
John O'Hara is a Scientist and Human Factors Research Manager at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri. He heads research and development in human systems integration addressing the effects of technology on human performance in complex systems, including the role of cognitive factors and development of design guidance for advanced systems such as information systems and computer-based procedures, and controls. Dr. O'Hara is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society (HFES) and chairs its Voting System Task Force. He also chairs the Usability/Accessibility Task Group for the IEEE Voting Equipment Standards (P-1583) and is an editorial board member of the international journal Cognition, Technology, and Work.
Doug Lewis is the Executive Director of the Election Center in Houston, Texas, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit association of state and local election administrators. The Center promotes, preserves, and improves democracy through research and information dissemination about laws, regulations, and practices concerning voter registration and elections administration. Center staff provide services such as administering the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) voting systems program, which is responsible for voluntary testing of voting systems hardware and software to meet or exceed the Federal Voting Systems Standards developed by the Federal Election Commission.
Gregg Vanderheiden founded the Trace Research & Development Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 30 years ago, and is a Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department (Human Factors Program) and Biomedical Engineering Department. He serves on the IEEE and HFES Voting Standard Accessibility working group, and has contributed to the Federal Elections Commission voting standards. Dr. Vanderheiden has been engaged in R&D on accessible voting since 1998, demonstrating the first cross-disability accessible voting system at FOSE in April 2000. He recently developed the EZ (R) Access techniques for providing cross-disability access in electronic products of all types, including voting systems. Finally, Dr. Vanderheiden is the principal investigator (PI) for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Information Technology Access, and co-PI for the RERC on Telecommunication Access.
Hans A. von Spakovsky is an expert on election law and voter fraud, technology, and e-commerce public policy issues. He presently serves as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he provides expertise and advice on voting and election issues and is the designated authority for HAVA issues. He is a past member of the Board of Advisors of the Voting Integrity Project, a national voting rights organization, and the former Executive Director of the Voting Integrity Project Legislative Alliance. Earlier in his career, Mr. von Spakovsky served on the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, which supervises elections in the largest county in Georgia and the City of Atlanta, and on the National Election Resource and Review Commission of the International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and Treasurers. Mr. von Spakovsky has testified before state and Congressional legislative committees on issues such as election reform, voter fraud, Internet voting, and e-government.
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Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access
Georgia Institute of Technology
490 10th Street NW · Atlanta, GA 30318
Telephone: 1-800-726-9119 (Voice/TTY) · Fax: 404-894-9320 · Email: ittatc@ittatc.org