Devva Kasnitz is a research associate at IURD. She is Program Manager of the Ed Roberts Fellowships in Disability Studies, a program in which fellowships are awarded to train advanced scholars to become leaders in disability studies and rehabilitation research, teaching and mentorship. She is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, Project Director of UC Berkeley's Disability Studies at Cal, and chairs a number of committees addressing disability issues. Her honors include the Mary Switzer Distinguished Fellowship at the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research in Washington, DC.