Research and Professional Background

My interests in accessible design, disability studies, administrative practice, pedagogy, and technology weave throughout my resume. In particular, the areas where I choose do research, training, advising, and consultant work reflect my experiences with the process of accessible design.

I see access as a necessary tool for liberation and community-building, and bring my experiences creating and advocating for accessible design to a range of spaces within and outside the academy.

Articles

Karpicz, J. R., (2020). “Just My Being Here is Self-Advocacy”: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled Graduate Students of Color with Self-Advocacy. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 6(1), 137-163.

[Accepted] Lehman, K. J., Karpicz, J. R., Rozhenkova, V., Harris, J., & Nakajima, T. M. (2021). “Growing Enrollments Require Us to do More: Perspectives on Broadening Participation During an Undergraduate Computing Enrollment Boom.” In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.

Conferences

Lehman, K. J., Sax, L. J., Karpicz, J. R., Nakajima, T. M., & Rozhenkova, V., “None of this Happens in a Vacuum”: The Impact of External Dynamics on Department Chairs’ Efforts to Broaden Participation in Undergraduate Computing, Association for the Study of Higher Education National Conference, November 2019

Karpicz, J. R., "How Academic Environments Shape the Self-Advocacy Strategies of Disabled Graduate Students of Color," Association for the Study of Higher Education National Conference, November 2019

Sax, L. J., Lehman, K. J., George, K. L., Karpicz, J. R., & Ramirez, D. "Leveraging research to improve the experiences of undergraduate students of color in computing."" Presentation at the 2019 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, September 2019

Karpicz, J. R., "Intersectionality and Self-Advocacy: Exploring the Self-Advocacy Experiences of Disabled Graduate Students of Color,” Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) National Conference, July 2019

Karpicz, J. R. “What’s the purpose of that?” The Influence of Disability Studies on Teaching Assistant Beliefs and Pedagogy, Pacific Western Disability Studies Symposium, May 2019

Meitzenheimer, B., Karpicz, J. R., & Alcaraz, J. H., “Dismantling the Workhorses of Whiteness: The Collective Experiences of Graduate Students of Color,” Critical Race Studies in Education Association, May 2018

Karpicz, J. R. [panelist], “Accessibility in Higher Education Roundtable,” Chicago Disability Studies Conference, April 2018

Karpicz, J. R. & Lillie, J., “Bridging the Gap Between Disability Support and Study Abroad Advisors,” NAFSA Region XI Conference, October 2015

Education

UCLA, Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change, June 2021 (expected)

UCLA, M.A. in Higher Education and Organizational Change

New York University, M.A. in International Education

UNC Chapel Hill, B.A. in Political Science

Invited Seminars and Trainings

Guest Lecturer, “Disability Identity,” California Lutheran University, College Student Development Theory, October 2020

Guest Lecturer, “Disability Studies in Education,” UCLA, Perspectives on Disability Studies, July 2020.

Co-Presenter, “Thinking beyond the numbers: Moving toward inclusive excellence & departmental change.” Invited talk presented at the July 2019 BRAID Summit at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.

Facilitator, “Fundamentals of Advising Students with Disabilities for Education Abroad,” Webinar Course prepared for Diversity Abroad, July 2017

Guest Speaker, “Disability Identity,” SIT Graduate Institute, Social Identity, Fall 2016

Panelist, Social Justice and Social Identity Panel, SIT Graduate Institute, Foundations in Intercultural Service, Leadership, and Management, Fall 2015 and Fall 2016

Guest Speaker, “Disability Services and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” SIT Graduate Institute, Dismantling Disability, Spring 2016

Guest Speaker, “TDEL: Inclusive Design,” SIT Graduate Institute, Training Design for Experiential Learning, Spring 2016.

Community Engagement

Advisory Board Member (2020-Present), Protest Access

Research Review Committee Member (2019-2021), Association on Higher Education and Disability

Consultant (2018), “Expanding Access to Public Art: Places to Start,” report on practices to expand disability-related access to public art installations, commissioned by Art in the Park, Worcester Committee

Co-Chair (2016-2017), “Access for Disability Abroad” Task Force, Diversity Abroad

Co-Chair of Web and Physical Accessibility Committees for Graduate Education and Study Abroad (2014-2017), School for International Training