Heather A. Feldner, PT, PhD, PCS

Dr. Feldner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, core faculty in the Disability Studies Program, and an Associate Director of the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE) at the University of Washington. Her research is centered at the intersection of mobility, disability, and technology in two primary areas, including perceptions of disability and identity and how these emerge and evolve through technology use, and in the design and implementation of pediatric mobility technology, considering how attitudes and the built environment affect equity and participation.  Her current work incorporates multidisciplinary, mixed methods, and participatory approaches drawing from her background as a pediatric physical therapist, doctoral work in disability studies, and postdoctoral research in user-centered rehabilitation and design in mechanical engineering. Heather has been a part of the Go Baby Go movement for nearly a decade and attended the first ever Go Baby Go workshop build in 2012 with Dr. Cole Galloway, who would go on to be her doctoral dissertation advisor and close colleague and friend. She joined forces with Shawn in 2016 to found the Go Baby Go Seattle Chapter, which became a UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine program in 2020.