Jamie Axelrod

Jamie Axelrod is the Director of Disability Resources and the ADA/504 Coordinator at Northern Arizona University. Jamie is also the current President of the Association on Higher Education and Disability.

Jamie holds a Master’s Degree in Counselor Education and worked for 10 years as a children’s mental health therapist. He then joined Protection and Advocacy Systems Inc. of Wyoming where he served as an advocate assisting individuals with disabilities, with a focus on ensuring their rights to educational opportunities.

Jamie has presented across the United States about educational access for individuals with disabilities in post-secondary education. A significant part of his work focuses on ensuring access to educational and scholarly materials, for individuals with vision and print disabilities as more of those materials are delivered digitally.