External Advisory Board
Chair of Board:
Richard Schulz, Ph.D.
Director, UCSUR
Distinguished Service Professor, Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh
Industry Members:
Stephen Ewell
Executive Director
Consumer Technology Association Foundation
Peter Kallestrup
Co-founder & CEO
i-Function, Inc.
Ajit Narayanan
Accessibility Software Engineer
John Richards, PhD FACM FBCS
Distinguished Research Staff Member
Member IBM Academy of Technology
IBM Research AI
T.J. Watson Research Center, New York
Community Members:
Michelle Arnot
Senior Director of Community Relations
Circle of Care
Philicia L. Deckard, LSW CBIST
Executive Director
Brain Injury Association of Illinois
Lorraine Novack (Voytek)
Director, Connect Through Tech Programs
DOROT, Inc.
William (Bill) Wertman, MSW
Chief Executive Officer
Big Bend Hospice
Academic Members:
Michelle S. Bourgeois, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Professor of Communications Sciences and Disorders
University of South Florida
Steven R. Levine, MD
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Emergency Medicine; Executive Vice-Chair of Neurology
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Albert “Skip” Rizzo
Research Professor
USC University of Southern California