APPLAUD Personnel
- Steven E. Brown, Ph.D., Principal Investigator. Dr. Brown, a person with a disability, works on several CDS projects and teaches graduate courses in disability and diversity. In 2000, he delivered a keynote speech, “Disability Culture: What Is It?” to the “Access: Opening the Doors to Service,” United Cerebral Palsy/Access AmeriCorps and CNCS Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has extensive community experience, including directing two independent living centers, serving on numerous nonprofit Boards of Directors, and working with members of the Self-Advocate Advisory Council (SAAC). He brings organizational, advocacy, and networking expertise to AIA-HI. In 2006, he received the COE Faculty Senate Lifetime Achievement Award and the Association of University Centers on Excellence in Disability (AUCD) Leadership in Advocacy Award.
- Madeline Harcourt, M.A., Project Director, is a faculty member at the Center on Disability Studies
(CDS), College of Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is also the Assistant Specialist for the Alliance for Inclusion Advancement-Hawaii project. She
is the creator and chair of the Committee on Hidden Disabilities and is the creator and faculty advisor for the Hidden Disabilities Support Group.
Ms. Harcourt is a person with multiple hidden disabilities. She has vast experience in volunteerism and national service. She received a 2002 national service inclusion project sub-grant where she developed Ready, Set, Go!, a project for people with disabilities interested in entering national service. She is an AmeriCorps*VISTA alumna (1994-1997) where she worked with homeless families at transitional shelters in Hawaii. She also served as an AmeriCorps supervisor at a local YWCA (1998-2000). She received the 2007 CDS Outstanding Faculty Contribution to Persons with Disabilities award and was a College of Education Leadership nominee for demonstrating exceptional leadership in scholarship, teaching and/or service for the 2006-2007 academic year. - Quinn Jackson, APPLAUD is an undergraduate at the University of Hawaii majoring in Communications. Quinn, a person with learning disabilities, is working towards a career in communications with emphasis on disability. She is a 2006 graduate of Kapiolani Community College’s Interpreting for the Deaf program. Quinn works a few hours a week preparing materials for projects and provides on-going administrative support. She has assisted the APPLAUD and Alliance for Inclusion-Advancement-Hawaii projects since March 2007 and is a welcomed addition to the office team. In addition, she recently volunteered for the CDS sponsored Road to Freedom event in April and the Art Enabled event in July 2007.
- Flora Yee, B.A. is an administrative assistant for the AIA-HI and the APPLAUD projects. She is responsible for the LINC listserv on all three Islands, purchases, climate assessment reports, and other office duties. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
