We know what you may be thinking, but the SWAT (Student Workers in Assistive Technology) Team under Student Accessibility Service are not police officers! The SAS SWAT Team is a group of highly-trained undergraduate and graduate student workers who strive for the highest standards of equitable access to assistive technology and digital accessibility for students with accommodations. The SWAT Team is led by Jordan Colbert, the Associate Director for Assistive Technology at SAS.
Student Workers in Assistive Technology (SWAT) Team
Accessibility Assistants
Accessibility Assistants (AA) are both undergraduate and graduate students that work to create accessible course materials for lecture and seminar courses. Led by the Graduate Accessibility Assistant, AAs receive course PowerPoints, Word docs, and PDFs from Canvas courses and make them accessible for individuals that use text-to-speech and screen reading technologies. AAs also work with creating electronically accessible mathematic content.
Lead Accessibility Assistant
Hanna DeBord
Graduate Accessibility Assistants
Jany Xu
Hala O’Keeffe
Alex Thomas
Baboucarr Joof
Jacob Ilhen
Onolunose Oko-Ose
Yuyi Bei
Christian Dadzie
Angelina Serwaa
Accessibility Assistants
Abby Moos
Alexa Murray
Alexis Yam
Allah-u-Abha Rodrigues
Aniket Aggarwal
Anmol Dhaliwal
Anyue Ai
Asavari Saigal
Aubrey Vaughn
Basel Hussein
Benedicta Asiedu
Bryan Wong
Carmen Mitchell
Dennis Martey
Dula Wereti
Emma Imakavar
Gabe Darley
Grace Halak
Graham Litz
Jackie Tran
Jesse Swank
Jessica Nosike
Jhah Cook
Marissa Villa
Mela Johnson
Mia Rodriguez-Vars
Michelle Egu
Mishael Saah
Ngoc-Lynn Hyunh
Osasumwen “Osasu” Okungbowa
Sabrah Islam
Salma Laraki
Shane Zhang
Sombo Sisay
Sundeep Kaur
Tandi Weeks
Tina Chen
Varshini Batti
Victoria Duran-Valero
Victoria Kizza
Veronica Paez-Degeller
Nora Wyrtzen
Andrew Stump
Yoselin Colin
Januka Khanal
Tolu Bakare
Daniella Posy
Jimmy Musili
Thara Joseph