Project Partners
The Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center for Quality Employment (VRTAC-QE) is a collaboration between the following partners.
Our partners are national leaders in research and training with a wide range of collective experience in identifying and sharing innovative employment practices for people with disabilities.
The Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center for Quality Employment (VRTAC-QE) is funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration (CFDA H264-K200003)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tim Tansey, Ph.D.
Professor and Principal Investigator
Malachy Bishop, Ph.D., CRC
Norman L. and Barbara M. Berven Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology and Co-Investigator
David Rosenthal, Ph.D., CRC
Professor
Fong Chan, Ph.D., CRC
Professor and Department Chair
Jina Chun, Ph.D., CRC
Assistant Professor
Stacie Castillo
Financial Specialist and Project Manager
Emily A. Brinck , Ph.D.
Researcher and SVRA Liaison
Jessica Holton, MS, CRC
SVRA Liaison
Cayte Anderson, Ph.D., LPC, CRC
Researcher and SVRA Liaison
- David Geslak, BS, ACSM EP-C, CSCS
President & Founder - Amber Pantaleo, LBS1
Director of Development - Keith Coffindaffer
Workforce Coordinator - Ben Schatzel
Employment Coordinator
- John Connelly
Director, Research and Grants - Theresa Hamrick
Operations Coordinator - Inger Neal
Business Relations Consultant
- Michael Frain, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Counselor Education
- Jeffrey Meyer, MLS, MA
E-Resources and Instruction Librarian
Michigan State University
- Dr. Emre Umucu, PhD, LPC, CRC
Assistant Professor
Director of the Veteran WellBeing Lab - Beatrice Lee, Ph.D., CRC, LPC (WI)
Co-Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Counseling
Director of Neurological Disorders and Stress Management Lab
- Cassandra Sligh Conway, Ph.D., CRC, GCDF, aPHR
Professor of Rehabilitation Counseling Program - Jacques Days, Director, Health Ministry of the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church
- Dr. Elaine Eskew, BCC, MSW
- Vernell Wolfe
- Nicolette M. Houston
- Kyle Walker, MRC, CRC, CPM
Executive Director - Cayte Anderson, Ph.D., LPC, CRC
Associate Professor
Researcher & Grant Director - Terry Donovan
Outreach Program Manager II
- David Strauser, Ph.D., CRC
Professor Department of Kinesiology and Community Health in Rehabilitation Psychology - John F. Kosciulek, PhD
Professor
Department of Kinesiology & Community Health - Bryan S. Austin, PhD, LPC, CRC
Disability & Rehabilitation Training Specialist
Department of Kinesiology & Community Health - Chelsea E. Greco, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Department of Kinesiology & Community Health
- Phil Rumrill, Ph.D., CRC
Director, Training and Research
Human Development Institute - Christina Bard, MRC, CRC
Director, Community Education
Human Development Institute
- Veronica Estala-Gutierrez, Ph.D., CRC
Director of the Rehabilitation Service Clinical Teaching Laboratory
- Alissa Brooke, M.S., C.R.C., PBSF
Director of Employment Research Training - Vicki Brooke, M. Ed.
Dir. of Training for VCU ACE, Dir. of Business Connections, & Dir. of RRTC on Employer Practices for Individuals with Disabilities - Katherine Inge, Ph.D., O.T.R.
Director of the RRTC on Employment for People with Physical Disabilities, Director of Instructional Technology - Kanako Iwanaga, Ph.D., CRC, LPC
Assistant Professor
Department of Rehabilitation Counseling
College of Health Professions - Jennifer Todd McDonough, M.S., C.R.C.
Project Director
Associate Director of Training
Virginia Project SEARCH Statewide Coordinator
VCU-RRTC
A trusted community platform for building social capital, skills, and careers.
- David Douglas
Co-Founder & CEO - Andre Dolan
Director of Strategic Initiatives - Sydney Gear
Communications and Marketing Manager