Stephanie L. Enyart, President
Stephanie L. Enyart is a 3L in UCLA School of Law's Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. At UCLA, Stephanie has been an Editor-In-Chief of Recent Developments for the Women's Law Journal, Chair of the Disability Law Society and she is currently serving as the UCLA American Bar Association representative. Stephanie worked for Protection and Advocacy Inc. in Los Angeles after her first year of law school and spent her second summer working in the Civil Rights Litigation Project for the Disability Rights Legal Center. Before law school, Stephanie was Secretary for the Youth Advisory Committee to the National Council on Disability and volunteered with the California Governor’s Committee for the Employment of People with Disabilities Youth Leadership Forum. She graduated from Stanford University in 1999 with a B.A. in English and a secondary major in Feminist Studies. Stephanie has a form of macular degeneration called Stargardts and grew up in Nipomo, California.
Rebecca S. Williford, Vice President
Rebecca S. Williford is a native of Rocky Mount, NC and a law student at the University of North Carolina (Class of 2009), where she is a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar and External Communications Editor of the First Amendment Law Review. An advocate for disability rights, she serves on the NC Statewide Independent Living Council, the NC Bar Association Disability Law Committee, and is the past president of the Disability Law Organization at UNC. She has worked as a summer intern at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the office of Commissioner Christine M. Griffin, the National Health Law Program, and Carolina Legal Assistance. She graduated with highest honors and distinction from UNC in 2004 with a B.A. in Political Science.
Noah D. Smith, Chief Information Officer
Noah Smith is a first year law student at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, and a 2007 Jack Kent Cooke Scholar. Noah became paralyzed in a traffic accident in 2002. Since that time he has advocated in Washington D.C., twice speaking at the Unite 2 Fight Paralysis rallies for passage of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act. He is also on the advisory board for the National Association of Service and Conservation Corps inaugural youth corps program for youth with disabilities. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oregon in 2006.
Janice Ta, Chief Financial Officer
Janice L. Ta is a 1L at Yale Law School and a 2007 Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation Fellow. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a B.A. in Art History and B.S. in Symbolic Systems, focusing on Human-Computer Interaction. She became actively involved with disability rights while she was an undergraduate, directing the Stanford Disability Speaker's Bureau to raise awareness of disability access issues on campus. After college, she spent three years at Plaxo, Inc. as a product manager in charge of implementing and driving the user experience of some of the company's key consumer products. In 2006-2007, she worked as the Program Assistant and interim National Coordinator for Disability Mentoring Day at the American Association of People with Disabilities. Janice was born on a Vietnamese refugee camp in Pulau Bidong, Malaysia where she contracted polio as an infant. Her family immigrated to Dallas, Texas in 1979.
Shayla Key Parker, Conference Director
Shayla Key Parker is a 1L at Georgetown, where she is a co-founder of the Disability Law Society. Before beginning law school, she worked for racial equality in housing, lending, and environmental policy at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. She spent a term at Oxford as an undergraduate, and received her B.A. from Stanford in 2005. She is also a freelance writer, with several magazine publications to her name.