Interview with Zina Jawadi : Disability at Stanford Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Zina Jawadi (2018 BS Biology; 2019 MS Bioengineering) reflects on living with hearing loss and her advocacy surrounding hearing loss and disability at Stanford and beyond. Jawadi recounts how she came to be diagnosed with hearing loss and speaks about the support she received from her family, the accommodations and assistive technology she utilized throughout her time at the Harker School and Stanford, and both the support and challenges she experienced throughout her education. In discussing her advocacy, Jawadi recalls bringing Vint Cerf to speak at Harker, her involvement with Power2Act and student government, and the establishment of the Abilities Hub. She also shares some of the frustrations in the efforts to establish a community center for the disability community at Stanford.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Extent | 1 text file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
| Date created | July 9, 2020 - |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Jawadi, Zina | |
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| Creator | Jawadi, Zina | |
| Interviewer | Davis, Alison Carpenter | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | People with disabilities |
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| Subject | Education, Higher |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Biographical Profile | Zina Jawadi has been passionate about hearing loss science and advocacy since eighth grade. She has bilateral, prelingual sensorineural hearing loss, underwent eight years of speech therapy, and wears hearing aids. Jawadi earned a BS in 2018 and MS in 2019 from Stanford University. She served as president of Power2ACT, Stanford’s disability advocacy organization, and as disability lead in the ASSU Executive Cabinet, representing the undergraduate and graduate Stanford student body. She launched the Abilities Hub at Stanford to secure a campus center for the disability community and founded the Stanford Disability Initiative to incorporate disability across all aspects of campus. Jawadi was an undergraduate and graduate research intern in Stanford’s Department of Otolaryngology. In 2018, she was a user research intern at NeoSensory, a Palo Alto-based venture capital funded start-up developing wearable devices that convert sound into vibrational patterns. She previously interned at the UCSF Otology and Cochlear Implant Center and at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. Jawadi is a Decision Analytics Associate at ZS Associates, an international management healthcare consulting firm. She has been serving on the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Board of Directors since 2019. Previously, she served as trustee (2013-2019), secretary (2013-2014), vice president (2014-2015), and president (2015-2019) of the Hearing Loss Association of America, California State Association. Jawadi will begin medical school in August 2020 at UCLA with the David Geffen Medical Scholarship, a merit-based full scholarship. |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/tk134kx2463 |
| Location | SC0932 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022
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