Please join the Arizona Biosafety Alliance (AZBA) on Thursday, November 5th, at 10am MST for our Fall Meeting.
We will be joined by Joey Ramp-Adams from Empower Ability Consulting and Sampson’s Legacy Foundation.
Speaker Bio: Joey Ramp-Adams is a biocognitive neuroscientist, disability advocate, author of INSISTENT, and Founder of Empower Ability Consulting and Sampson’s Legacy Foundation. A nationally recognized advocate for service dog access in laboratories, she works with academic institutions, research laboratories, and professional organizations to advance accessibility and inclusion in STEM. Her advocacy has been instrumental in expanding laboratory access for service dog handlers and contributed to the CDC/NIH clarification on service animals in laboratories. A published, peer-reviewed author on service dog access in science, she has also developed instructional content on service dogs in research environments for the CITI Program and authored a textbook chapter for IGI Global on service dog access to laboratories. Her work bridges science, policy, education, and lived experience to create safer, more equitable opportunities for scientists with disabilities.