ABOUT US
The SDA works diligently throughout U-High to advocate for the needs of persons with disabilities. We host interactive disability-simulator workshops for faculty and administrators, as well as for students. We are also working to implement disability awareness into all aspects of the school curriculum, through working with administrators and teachers in the middle and high school.
Our Leadership
Current Members
Téa Tamburo (she/her)
President
Class of 2023
Years in SDA: 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23
Years in middle school SDA: 2018-19
Téa serves as the president of SDA has led the group in hosting experiential workshops and efforts to make school facilities accessible. Having personal experience with accessibility barriers and allyship, she is especially passionate about encouraging her abled peers to become involved in disability justice. Téa is also an editor-in-chief of the U-High Midway, and she founded an adoption community as her passion project. She was recognized in 2021 for her work in community advocacy with the President's Volunteer
Service Award.
Katie Schmidt (she/her)
Vice President
Class of 2025
Years in SDA: 2021-22, 2022-23
Years in middle school SDA: 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21
Skye Freeman
Leadership Assistant
Class of 2025
Years in SDA: 2022-23
Taylor Landry
Communications Manager
Class of 2025
Years in SDA: 2021-22, 2022-23
Ava Wiltzak
Member
Class of 2023
Years in SDA: 2021-22, 2022-23
Perla Lais
Member
Class of 2025
Years in SDA: 2022-23
Sophia Shimanska
Member
Class of 2025
Years in SDA: 2022-23
Leo Pratt-Thomas (he/him)
Member
Class of 2023
Years in SDA: 2021-22, 2022-23
Leo is a member of SDA and hosts experimental workshops to help the school and students better understand learning differences. He has dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD and dyscalculia.
Hana Javed
Member
Class of 2025
Years in SDA: 2021-22, 2022-23
Years in middle school SDA: 2018-19
Jack Colyer
Member
Class of 2025
Years in SDA: 2022-23
Priyanshi Garg
Member
Class of 2025
Years in SDA: 2022-23
Faculty Sponsors
Suzanne Baum
Suzanne Baum, A.B. in Romance Languages, M.A. in Linguistics, has been a teacher of English as a second or foreign language, French and Spanish since 1993. She has been the faculty club sponsor of SDA since its creation, because she is open with her students about the fact that she has dyslexia.
Katharine McJimsey
SDA Graduates
Zach Sharp
President, Co-founder
Class of 2021
Zach Sharp served as the president of SDA and has helped to lead the club to work on disability advocacy around the school. Outside the club, Zach served as a school leader in other roles as a member of the All School Council and
DEI Peer Facilitators.
Ashley Husain
Member
Original Member; Class of 2021
Jayne Crouthamel
Vice President, Co-founder
Class of 2021
Sofia Woodruff
Student Representative
Original Member; Class of 2021
Sofia is interested in the psychology of education, specifically on environmental factors that affect academic performance of people with learning differences.
Audrey Matzke
Member
Class of 2022
Years in SDA: 2021-22