Digital Accessibility Office Staff

(She/Her) I gained my higher education experience working as an Accessible Content Specialist at California State University, Chico providing technology-based accommodations for students, staff, and faculty with disabilities. Following that, I spent a year as an Accessibility Advisor working with staff, faculty, students, administrators, and community members to ensure that all aspects of campus life— learning, working, and living— are universally accessible. In July 2022, I began my career at...

Addie is a Senior Accessibility Tester for the Digital Accessibility Office. She is thrilled to be contributing to improvements in the accessibility of content for students and faculty. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, rock climbing, skiing, and many other outdoor activities.

Elle (she/her) works as a Captioning Specialist for the Digital Accessibility Office (DAO). Elle brings her programming skills to the DAO team, automating several parts of the DAO captioning workflow. Most recently she developed a tool that returns a list of CU Boulder YouTube channels and all public videos associated with that channel, along with information about each video, including view count and caption status. Elle is currently working towards...

Marisha Lamont-Manfre is the Accessibility & Usability Assessment Manager. She will be coordinating the stages of accessibility assessments and consulting work. Prior to CU, she has worked in accessibility services, assistive technology, and digital accessibility. Marisha received her BS in Mathematics from Regis University and her MA in Research and Evaluation Methods from UC Denver. She is currently in the Ph.D. program for Research and Evaluation Methods at UC Denver...

Rachel is the Digital Accessibility Services Manager. She currently manages the campus captioning service and Qualtrics accessibility exceptions process. Before joining CU, she worked at Emerson College in instructional technology, after earning her BA in Visual & Media Arts. Rachel has lived and worked in five US cities: Chicago, Boston, DC, LA, and NYC. She’s excited to add Boulder partially to the list, as she’s working remotely full-time from Chicago...

Megan (she/her) is the Digital Accessibility Services Coordinator. She coordinates the daily operations of the campus captioning service and the Qualtrics accessibility exceptions process. She earned her BA in Family and Consumer Science from Sacramento State. Prior to her work at CU Boulder, Megan gained higher education experience working in disability services, accessibility services, student advising, and student affairs. Originally from Sacramento, California, Megan has lived in Colorado since 2010...

Kosta has lead the digital accessibility office since 2018. He has worked at CU Boulder in OIT since 2012 first in web consulting and then digital accessibility. He has worked at universities for nearly 20 years in a variety of capacities (instructor, support staff and manager) and disciplines (lingustics, translation, rhetoric, intercultural communication, research methods and statistics, content management systems, and accessibility). He is a native of Russia with a...

Paula Vaughan began her career in IT at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1980 upon receiving her master’s degree from CU. Rising through the ranks from Systems Analyst to IT Project Manager, some of Paula's more entertaining projects include the introduction of computing to Boulder Campus' Facilities Management Department with the design and implementation of a work order cost accounting system, in-house development of CU's Acquisition Card system,...

Mike has worked in the fields of accessibility, assistive technology (AT), and disability services for over 15 years. Mike has a Master of Science degree in Assistive Technology and Human Services from California State University Northridge. Throughout his career, Mike has worked as a certified assistive technology trainer, accessibility consultant, and director of a low vision and blindness support center. Mike manages the digital accessibility assessment and usability activities within...