Professional development by and for higher ed professionals

The Digital Collegium 2025 Accessibility Summit is a one-day, online event focused on digital accessibility in higher education.

Learn best practices about digital accessibility and connect with your peers at other higher ed institutions. Beginners and experts, non-technical and technical users, and everyone in-between will benefit from attending the Accessibility Summit!

Join us Tuesday, July 29, 2025, as we learn and work together to make the digital space accessible to everyone.

About Digital Collegium

We’re Digital Collegium — but we’re all friends, so just call us DigiCol.

DigiCol is active year-round via educational and networking events and our Link Journal. 

We're also a thriving community of members. When you become a DigiCol member, you gain many benefits:

Organizing committee

DigiCol is volunteer powered. The Digital Collegium 2025 Accessibility Summit is an outcome of their dedicated work.

Joyce Peralta Co-chair
Joyce Peralta
she/her
McGill University
Jenn Hayes Co-chair
Jenn Hayes
she/her
Teachers College at Columbia University
Jen Bethmann Vice chair
Jen Bethmann
She, her, hers
Illinois State University
Karen Skudlarek Accessibility coordinator
Karen Skudlarek
she/her
University of Connecticut
Holly Nicholson Designer
Holly Nicholson
She/her/hers
Northern Illinois University
Sara Clark Executive director
Sara Clark
she, her, hers
Digital Collegium
Leah Villa Marketing and communications lead
Leah Villa
she/her
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Ben Kaminsky Platform lead
Ben Kaminsky
He/Him
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kate DeForest Program chair
Kate DeForest
she/her
SUNY Oswego
Emily Brown Program vice chair
Emily Brown
she/her
Marion Marquardt Registration coordinator
Marion Marquardt
Mona Maharjan Safety and inclusion coordinator
Mona Maharjan
she/her
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Brooke Buchanan Social media coordinator
Brooke Buchanan
she/her
West Virginia University at Parkersburg
Thien Nguyen August Sponsor support
Thien Nguyen August
she/her
Stony Brook University

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for all

In support of our core values, Digital Collegium is dedicated to cultivating diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging for all. We are committed to creating a welcoming and accessible environment for everyone of all identity factors, such as (but not limited to) sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability/disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, class, age, or faith.

Code of Conduct

The DigiCol community is awesome, and we want to keep being awesome for everyone involved. So a reminder of what you already know: Digital Collegium is dedicated to working toward a harassment-free community and conference experience for everyone, regardless of identity factors such as (but not limited to) sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, class, age, or faith.

Code of Conduct