Our Values

Flexibility is key.

Accessibility is not one-size-fits-all; not for disabled people, and not for your org. Our solutions are made to change and grow with you.

Human-centered design.

No matter how you interface with the community, every organization has one thing in common: people! We know how to listen to your needs, suggest fantastic solutions, and help you implement them in a way that works best for you.

Connecting with communities.

Every neighborhood is special. We will ensure our solutions fit in with the cultural and logistical needs of the area around you.

Our Team

Jules Good, Founder and Consulting Lead - They/them

Jules, a white person with short blonde hair wearing a multicolored suit.

Jules Good, Founder and Consulting Lead

Jules Good (they/them) is the founder and consulting lead at Neighborhood Access. Jules is a multiply-disabled, queer community builder with a passion for leveraging design, collaboration, and talent to create more accessible communities. They hold a Master in Public Policy from the University of New Hampshire and are a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies accredited through the IAAP. They work full time as the Programs Coordinator at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. Jules has served as a member of the White House Office of Public Engagement Disability Advisory Council, as well as a member of the Fair Fight Action Disability Council. They have worked in advocacy, assistive technology, policy, and consulting, and use these experiences to inform their work. Jules has worked with nonprofits, state agencies, and private businesses to aid in making their practices and processes more accessible to the disabled community. They are deeply involved in disability justice work both locally in their current home state of New Hampshire, and nationally.



Other Collaborators

Jules organizes teams of consultants on a per-project basis to ensure that we have a team with the most relevant expertise for every partnership. Below are some fabulous people in our collaborative rolodex! Interested in collaborating on future projects? Email jules@neighborhoodaccess.org to set up a time to chat!


Dom Kelly

Dom Kelly, Board Member

Dom Kelly

Dom Kelly is the Founder and ED at New Disabled South and a passionate disability justice advocate. He also founded and led Fair Fight Action’s Disability Council composed of prominent disability advocates and policy experts from across the country, and worked on Stacey Abrams’ 2022 campaign. Dom is one of a set of triplets with Cerebral Palsy and has been involved in disability advocacy since he was four years old. Starting when he was a young teenager, Dom and his brothers toured around the world with their rock band, touring and collaborating with artists like Indigo Girls, Joan Baez, The Bangles, and more and releasing 6 records over 15+ years. He is now retired from music, but with a decade of experience in digital and editorial strategy, he has devoted his life to progressive politics and advocacy and is finishing up his second master’s degree in nonprofit leadership at the University of Pennsylvania. Dom currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Catie, their dog Vivi, and their cat Pippi Longstocking.


Emily Ladau

Emily Ladau

Emily Ladau is a passionate disability rights activist, writer, storyteller, and digital communications consultant. She is the author of Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally, published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.Emily’s career began at the age of 10 when she appeared on several episodes of Sesame Street to educate children about her life with a physical disability. A native of Long Island, New York, Emily graduated with a B.A. in English from Adelphi University in 2013 and now serves on their Board of Trustees. In 2017, she was named as one of Adelphi’s 10 Under 10 Young Alumni. In 2018, she was awarded the Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award from the American Association of People with Disabilities. Emily is the Editor in Chief of the Rooted in Rights Blog, a platform dedicated to amplifying authentic narratives on the disability experience through an intersectional lens. She also provides communications and social media strategy consulting as well as editorial services for multiple disability-related organizations and initiatives. And, she co-hosts “The Accessible Stall Podcast,” a show that dives into disability issues. Emily’s writing has been published in outlets including The New York Times, SELF, Salon, Vice, and HuffPost and she has served as a source for outlets including PBS NewsHour, NPR, Vox, and Washington Post. She has spoken before numerous audiences, from the U.S. Department of Education to the United Nations. Central to all of her work is harnessing the power of storytelling as a tool for people to become engaged in disability and social justice issues. Follow Emily on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. More about her work can be found on her website, WordsIWheelBy.com.


Sara Fisch, Consultant - She/Her

Sara Fisch, Co-Manager of Client Outreach

Sara Fisch (she/her) is a disabled organizer from New York with a passion for making the world a more accessible place. She does this by collaborating with a range of community fixtures--from political campaigns and social justice organizations to small businesses and large companies--to make their content and practices more accessible to the disabled community. Since March 2020, she has been an Organizing Fellow and Disability Policy Advisor on Mondaire Jones’ congressional primary campaign and was a Field Organizer on the Iowa Democratic Party’s Coordinated Campaign for the general election. Most recently, she advised on Rebecca Lamorte’s New York City Council campaign while finishing her Associates in Human Development at Penn State University.

Eryn Star, Consultant - He/They

Eryn, a white masculine person with short brown hair wearing a white button down and a black suit jacket.

Eryn Star, Social Media Manager

Eryn is an autistic trans queer activist who is passionate about building solidarity between disability justice and queer justice movements. He is a recent graduate of Albion College. In college, they co-founded their college's 1st disabled students org. Eryn hopes to support disabled community spaces in ensuring that disabled trans people are centered in disability activism. Eryn performs as the drag king Neuro Cosmos. He is the Access Team Co-Lead at The New Synagogue Project, and the Access Coordinator of The Becoming Fund. In their free time, Eryn enjoys going to drag shows, listening to music across many genres, reading disabled &/or queer novels and poetry, watching fantasy & scifi shows, watching opera, and discovering new restaurants to try.


Valerie Novack - She/Her

Valerie Novack, Board Member

Valerie Novack

Valerie Novack (she/her) is a disability policy researcher focusing on inclusive infrastructure and emergency management practices. She focuses on integrating the expertise of lived experience and grassroots efforts of marginalized peoples into policymaking at the local, state, and federal levels. Valerie started in a Center for Independent Living before becoming a 2019 Portlight Fellow focusing on legislative solutions to inaccessible emergency response practices in the United States and the founding Board Chair of the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies. She has partnered on legislative and community advocacy efforts with organizations such as the Center for American Progress, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, and the National Disability Rights Network. Novack has a bachelor’s degree in disability studies and urban planning from the University of Toledo and a master’s degree in disaster preparedness and emergency management from Arkansas State University. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Utah State University.


Elliott or “E” - He/They

Elliott or “E” , Board Member

Elliott or “E”

Elliott (or “E”) is nonbinary and uses He/They pronouns. They are DeafDisabled and ASL is their primary language. Elliott has had the experience of working with several activist organizations, has done community projects such as helping create/run an accessible free food pantry during COVID and has experience with disabled advocacy and activism on an individual and organizational basis. He has 3 dogs and a cat and his favorite color is yellow.


Mary Fashik - She/Her

Mary Fashik, Board Member

Mary Fashik

Mary Fashik (she/her) is a member of the Disabled Community and a Lebanese-born Miami native who currently resides in Georgia. She is the founder of Upgrade Accessibility, a movement designed to challenge today’s accessibility standards while amplifying voices in the disabled/chronically ill community. She is also the founder of Camp Access, a six-week virtual camp that fostered community and conversations that are often ignored or are seen as uncomfortable. Most recently, she co-founded and produced The TRUE Project, which commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The TRUE Project centered on BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ voices, including 40+ disabled activists, authors, creators, and artists. Throughout her various published works, Mary has tackled a wide range of topics including those of ableism, the need for more disabled teachers, and disability rights. She has a degree in technology and a background in business and fundraising


KáLyn Coghill - She/They

KáLyn Coghill, Board Member

KáLyn Coghill

KáLyn is a professor, scholar-activist, artist, and writer who has Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) and Pyoderma Gangrenosum (PG) which are two chronic rare skin diseases that impact her mobility. She loves showing off her sunflower cane! She is a Black disabled queer woman with ADHD/OCD who believes that mutual aid should come in all forms from education to community resources. She is the Fundraising and Sustainability Coordinator for Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project, a local abortion fund, and co-director for Digital Black Lit and Composition(DBLAC) an organization that focuses on knowledge building for Black students. She serves as a member of the All-City Art Club in Richmond, Va which is a local art collective that focuses on bringing art to the community. KáLyn is the chair of the Sisterhood Committee for her beloved sorority Sigma Gamma Rho, Sorority Inc. KáLyn is currently working on her doctorate in Media, Art, and Text at Virignia Commonwealth University, and she teaches in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies department. Her courses focus on race, feminism, girlhood studies, literature, and hip-hop pedagogy. KáLyn has a first-author publication in the International Journal of Linguistics and Communications titled “A Seat at the Table: A Repetitive Narrative of Abuse” which investigates digital violence on Twitter and its impact on celebrity Leslie Jones during the 2016 Ghost Buster movie release. Her academic research focuses on misogynoir in digital spaces, hip-hip pedagogy, and Black girlhood studies. She is a mental health advocate, spiritual home-girl, and she is elated to assist you in any capacity! She is a cat-mom to Giovanté (Gio) and Jaime (Ghost) and spoils them rotten with her husband Ernest in Richmond, Virginia.


Ali Steenis

Ali Steenis, Board Member

Ali Steenis

Ali works in disability services at Bellevue College, a large community college in western Washington State. Blind since birth and passionate about disability justice, Ali understands the importance of education equity and the difference intentional disability design and inclusion can make for all disabled people. She graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a degree in Global Development Studies and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Disability Studies from City University of New York. Ali has been involved in disability advocacy from a young age including working with local and national nonprofits, education organizations, and smaller community groups. She believes disability justice is an integral component of a larger movement to equip the most marginalized to build a safer, healthier, and equitable reality.

Wherever you find Ali, you are sure to find her guide dog Bodeen taking a snooze under a table or enthusiastically targeting an elevator (his favorite task). Please remember that while his sweet and wiggly personality could melt even the hardest hearts, Bodeen has a very important job to do and must not be distracted.

In her spare time, Ali enjoys cooking new foods with her partner, playing a good game of hide and seek with Bodeen, running, or riding horses with friends


We’re always looking for new people to collaborate with. Reach out to chat with us about a partnership!