Teach Access Fellowship Program

The Fellowship Program engages educators and administrators to create purposeful communities of action for teaching and advocating for accessibility. Over the course of a year, Fellows are supported in learning how accessibility informs their practice, in teaching about it to others, and in strategizing for embedding it into the curriculum.    

Note about the 2026 Fellowship Program

We will not be hosting a new cohort of the Teach Access Fellowship Program in 2026 as we focus on celebrating Teach Access’s 10th anniversary. To mark this milestone, we’ll be offering special programming throughout the year. Stay tuned for announcements and opportunities to get involved in the celebration!

Overview

The Teach Access Fellowship is a year-long professional development program designed for faculty and academic support staff at colleges and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Teach Access Fellows:

  • Learn from leading experts in accessibility and disability inclusion

  • Receive mentorship from professionals in academia and industry

  • Collaborate with a network of educators committed to advancing accessibility in higher education

  • Develop and implement innovative ways to teach accessibility in your courses

  • Receive a stipend to support their Fellowship work

Fellows commit to approximately five hours per month, including participation in 12 synchronous Zoom sessions (seven in the spring and five in the fall) and asynchronous work foxcused on building and implementing curricular materials. In the spring, Fellows explore the foundations of disability and accessibility and plan how to teach these concepts. Over the summer, they develop at least two teaching materials with support from Teach Access. In the fall, Fellows focus on delivering accessibility content to students and strategizing how to integrate accessibility into their curriculum.

Teach Access Fellows

2025 Cohort

  • Abdelfattah Amamra, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • Alex Rockey, Bakersfield College
  • Alihan Hadimlioglu, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  • Brianna Posadas, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • Denisse Meléndez Serrano, Inter American University of Puerto Rico
  • Haitham Alkhateeb, University of Baltimore
  • Hajar Homayouni, San Diego State University
  • Hossein Shirazi, San Diego State University
  • José Antonio Rodríguez Arroyo, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
  • Lee Hibbard, University of Michigan
  • Martine Foreman, Carroll Community College
  • Mary-Colleen Jenkins, University of Washington – Seattle Campus
  • Marzieh Ayati, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • Megan Ritchie, University of Miami
  • Nuri Yilmazer, Texas A&M University – Kingsville
  • Rebecca Clark-Stallkamp, East Carolina University
  • Ruth Mercado-Cruz, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
  • Sergei Chuprov, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • Shavonda Jackson, Alcorn State University
  • Valeta Wensloff, Michigan State University

2023 Cohort

  • Akira Kawaguchi – CUNY The City College of New York
  • Brittany Butler – CSU East Bay
  • Chen Wang – CSU Fullerton
  • Devorah Kletenik – CUNY Brooklyn College
  • David Daniel Bogumil – CSU Northridge
  • Eva-Maria Sofianos – CUNY Lehman College
  • Joe Bautista – CSU Northridge
  • John T. Drew – CSU Fullerton
  • Kumar Ramansenthi – CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Lorraine Githiora – CUNY 
  • Mark Farquhar – CSU Northridge
  • Oscar Marin – CSU Northridge 
  • Sarah A. Meyer – CSU Poly Pomona
  • Shally Juarez – CSU Northridge
  • Shubha Kashinath – CSU East Bay
  • Suzanne David – CSU Northridge
  • Vickie Yu – CSU Northridge
  • Ching-Song (Don) Wei – CUNY Borough of Manhattan College
  • Tatiana Anderson – CUNY College of Staten Island
  • Marc Thompson – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2024 Cohort

  • Amanda Cote, Michigan State University
  • Amina Ayodeji-Ogundiran, Bowie State University
  • Carly Lesoski, Dartmouth College
  • Casey McArdle, Michigan State University
  • Daisy Muralles, California State University, East Bay
  • Deanna Fassett, San José State University
  • Fernando Román, Atlantic University Puerto Rico
  • Geneene Thompson, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
  • Isabell May, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Javeed Kittur, The University of Oklahoma
  • Jude Okolie, The University of Oklahoma
  • Luis Alvarado, American University
  • Lynn Baldwin, Madison Area Technical College
  • Megan Kohler, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Paul Miller, Montgomery College
  • Samala Lewis, Carroll Community College
  • Sameer Patil, University of Utah
  • Sara Shunkwiler, Johns Hopkins University
  • Sean Tingle, Arizona State University
  • Vanesa Santiago Ríos, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon Campus