Graduate Students

Jeff Gordon, B.S., is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research and Training Center on Independent Living, the University of Kansas. (Read his bio here.)

He is working on project R-11, Building Capacity for Full Community Participation.

Stephen Loke, B.S., is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research and Training Center on Independent Living, The University of Kansas. (Read his bio here.)

He is assisting with the two systematic scoping reviews that are being conducted as part of the RTC on Community Living. SSR-1 focuses on the risks for institutionalization of people with disabilities. SSR-2 is updating a review of literature on health care use and receipt of clinical preventive services by people with disabilities.

Mallory Murphy is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research and Training Center on Independent Living, the University of Kansas. (Read her bio here.)

She is working on projects R-4, Multiple Chronic Conditions and Healthcare Access and R-7, Health Navigator Training.





Andrew Myers is working on R-2, "Time Use among People with Disabilities." He is an M.A. candidate in Geography, with an emphasis on human-environment relations, at the University of Montana.

He earned his B.S. in City and Regional Planning from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Ashmeet Oberoi is pursuing a Ph.D. in community psychology with a distinction in statistics and measurement from University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently working on the R-5 project, “CIL Services Effect on Community Participation.”

She has worked with the Center for Capacity Building for Minorities with Disabilities at UIC since 2010 as a research specialist, working on several research projects that address health and rehabilitation outcomes disparities for minority populations.