{"638991":{"#nid":"638991","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cassie Mitchell Honored for Disability Advocacy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECassie Mitchell, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, was named winner of the 2020 Faculty Diversity Champion Award at the 12\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E annual Diversity Symposium at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium was held virtually on Wednesday (Sept. 9) and hosted by Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (IDEI) at Georgia Tech. This year\u0026rsquo;s theme was \u0026ldquo;Understanding Accessibility as Inclusion: Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Pathway to Accessibility.\u0026rdquo; The Diversity Champion Awards recognize members of the faculty, staff, and student body, and a unit (office, department, school, or lab) who are advancing the principles of accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion within the Georgia Tech community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell, a researcher in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, is a Paralympics medalist (discus, and club throw). At Georgia Tech she\u0026nbsp;co-founded and co-advises the ABLE Alliance, an organization dedicated to improving on-campus disability inclusion via access and resource sharing, community and social support, as well as professional and career development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther Diversity Champion Awards went to Johan \u0026ldquo;John\u0026rdquo; Rembel (staff award, UX\/ICT Quality Assurance Manager, Center for Inclusive Design); Nandita Gupta (student award, grad student studying human-computer interaction); Writing and Communication Program, School of Literature, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts (unit award).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClick \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/12th-annual-georgia-tech-diversity-symposium\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehere\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E for more information on the 12\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E Annual Diversity Symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"BME assistant professor wins a 2020 Georgia Tech Diversity Champion Award"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBME assistant professor wins a 2020 Georgia Tech Diversity Champion Award\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"BME assistant professor wins a 2020 Georgia Tech Diversity Champion Award"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2020-09-11 17:14:09","changed_gmt":"2020-09-11 17:14:09","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"638990":{"id":"638990","type":"image","title":"Cassie Mitchell","body":null,"created":"1599844190","gmt_created":"2020-09-11 17:09:50","changed":"1599844190","gmt_changed":"2020-09-11 17:09:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"242952","name":"Cassie Mitchell.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cassie%20Mitchell.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cassie%20Mitchell.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":594347,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Cassie%20Mitchell.jpg?itok=fM3TTd7a"}}},"media_ids":["638990"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWriter\/Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech (EVPR\/BME)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}