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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Pages 77-90
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He has been invited to speak at a number of prominent, globally recognized conferences, including the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, WebSummit, and Fashion Asia Hong Kong. In addition, he had the opportunity to sit on a number of esteemed juries in New York and Europe, including the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)
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In this position, Dr. Campbell's primary responsibilities involved providing scientific direction for strategic planning and priority development in the areas of aging with disability, technologies to promote health and wellness and successful aging, health disparities and health equity, and accessible health information technology; serving as a project officer for NIDILRR's grants in these areas; and coordinating NIDILRR's research-capacity-building efforts for both the Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training program, which funds institutions of higher education to conduct multidisciplinary postdoctoral rehabilitation research, and the Switzer Research Fellowship Program, which awards Merit and Distinguished Fellowships to qualified individuals.
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Campbell served for 9 years as the research director for the NIDRR-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Disability at the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, California, and for 4 years as a research associate at the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California, directing the Longitudinal Study of Intergenerational Family Relations. During her career, Dr.
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, the American Psychological Association Early Career Award, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) Scientific Impact Award.
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He was honored to introduce President Obama at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the White House lawn. He was also honored to present the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award at the United Nations to the country of New Zealand and to King Abdullah II of Jordan.
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Jones moved to New York after accepting a place to study fashion design at Parsons. Her award-winning collection, Seated Design, which focused primarily on manual wheelchair users, led to her receiving several awards and designations including the Parsons Womenswear Designer of the Year 2015, the Kering Empowering Imagination 4.0 award, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2016.
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Diagnosed with a degenerative retinal disease at age 26, she became engaged with disability rights advocacy. Current national board appointments include the New York Advisory Board; the California board of directors of Disability Rights Advocacy, a nonprofit law firm that specializes in disability rights; and the Foundation Fighting Blindness, the premier research organization seeking cures for blindness.
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More recently, she served as one of three senior disability policy advisors to the Hillary for America campaign, formulating and leading nine teams of experts and stakeholders to craft disability policy, raising more than $2 million from the disability community to support the campaign, and guiding disability social media presence. Becca Levy, Ph.D., is a professor of epidemiology and psychology at Yale University.
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Under her leadership, the AGS has emerged as a leading advocate for programs and policies that benefit older adults, supported the development of geriatrics academic leaders, expanded the number of surgical and related medical specialists who are focused on improving care of older adults in their discipline, and enhanced AGS outreach to the public through the AGS Health in Aging Foundation.
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elLABel is an experimental, human-centered fashion design and production laboratory that mines diverse histories and traditions of fashion, specific people, communities, materials, and making processes to engage critical social matters, including issues around aging and sustainability.
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His research focuses primarily on age, ageism, intergenerational tension, and related management and policy applications. His research has been published in leading academic journals, including Psychological Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Research in Organizational Behavior, and he has authored op-eds for Harvard Business Review, Quartz, and New Scientist.
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Her primary focus is the intersection between innovation and impact in the design and scaling of interventions in health care, especially for clinicians and those facing health disparities. She is a practitioner of the human-centered design approach to intervention development, which emphasizes the importance of understanding cultural and contextual feasibility and appeal to ensure uptake and therefore impact in a particular target audience.
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He has served as an associate dean and acting dean at the UCLA School of Public Affairs and as the chair of the Social Welfare Department. His research spans topics of health and long-term care, disability, entitlement reform, and the politics of aging.
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when President Obama appointed him as vice chair of the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency that reports to the U.S. Congress and White House on federal matters related to disability policy.
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