{"id":2565,"date":"2023-10-10T21:29:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T21:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-services\/?page_id=2565"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:57:00","slug":"meet-our-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/meet-our-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"card card-profile vcard tease tease-profile card-figure card-figure-left\" id=\"tease-2555\">\n      <div class=\"card-figure card-figure-padded\">\n\t         <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shammah Bermudez, Ed.D\" style=\"width: auto; max-width: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2023\/09\/shammah_bermudez_disablity_svcs-e1696880830948-150x0-c-default.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t   <\/div>\n   <div class=\"card-body\">\n      <ul>\n         <li class=\"fn\">\n                           Shammah Bermudez, Ed.D\n                     <\/li>\n         <li class=\"title\">\n            Director, ADA\/504 Compliance Officer \n         <\/li>\n\t               <li class=\"position-description\">Shammah is responsible for providing leadership and strategic oversight to the Center for Disability Resources. He also meets with students and monitors campus compliance with federal and state legislation.<\/li>\n\t\t   \t                  <li class=\"email\"><a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:sbermude@macalester.edu\" >sbermude@macalester.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t   \t      \t\t  <li>651-696-6748<\/li>\n\t      \t      \t\t  <li>He\/Him<\/li>\n\t            <\/ul>\n             \n         <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"card card-profile vcard tease tease-profile card-figure card-figure-left\" id=\"tease-3739\">\n      <div class=\"card-figure card-figure-padded\">\n\t         <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Hayes\" style=\"width: auto; max-width: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/11\/Head-Shot-150x0-c-default.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t   <\/div>\n   <div class=\"card-body\">\n      <ul>\n         <li class=\"fn\">\n                           <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/facultystaff\/john-hayes\/\">John Hayes<\/a>\n                     <\/li>\n         <li class=\"title\">\n            Associate Director of Disability Resources\n         <\/li>\n\t               <li class=\"position-description\">Along with meeting with students, John oversees Testing, supervising the CDR Testing\/Department Coordinator. Additonally John assist the Director with the day to day operations, planning, budgeting, and policy development.<\/li>\n\t\t   \t                  <li class=\"email\"><a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:jhayes1@macalester.edu\" >jhayes1@macalester.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t   \t      \t\t  <li>651-696-6749<\/li>\n\t      \t      \t\t  <li>He\/Him <\/li>\n\t            <\/ul>\n             \n         <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"card card-profile vcard tease tease-profile card-figure card-figure-left\" id=\"tease-2645\">\n      <div class=\"card-figure card-figure-padded\">\n\t         <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Josie Hurka, M.S.\" style=\"width: auto; max-width: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2023\/10\/JH-Headshot-150x0-c-default.jpeg\" \/>\n\t\t   <\/div>\n   <div class=\"card-body\">\n      <ul>\n         <li class=\"fn\">\n                           Josie Hurka, M.S.\n                     <\/li>\n         <li class=\"title\">\n            Disability Resources Specialist\n         <\/li>\n\t               <li class=\"position-description\">Josie meets with students for intakes and supports students who need accommodations.  Josie also assists with the arrangement of accommodations including accessible texts, notetakers, captioners and ASL interpreters.   She oversees our MentorUP program.  <\/li>\n\t\t   \t                  <li class=\"email\"><a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:jhurka@macalester.edu\" >jhurka@macalester.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t   \t      \t\t  <li>651-696-6974<\/li>\n\t      \t      \t\t  <li>She\/Hers<\/li>\n\t            <\/ul>\n             \n         <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2026\/01\/CDR-Org-Chart.24_26-Rev-copy.pdf\">Center for Disabilty Resources Org Chart <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Center for Disabilty Resources Org Chart<\/p>","protected":false},"author":643,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2565","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2565\/revisions\/3837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}