Christena Gunther

Christena Gunther (she/her) serves as Assistant Director of Disability Services and Student Affairs at Adler University. As the only disability services staffer, she works with over 300 graduate students from the Chicago and Online campuses to provide accommodations and support, and she strives to ensure Adler’s social justice mission also encompasses disability justice.

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Christena is the founder and president of Cultural Access Collaborative, a nonprofit that empowers Illinois’ cultural spaces to become more accessible to visitors with disabilities. Dismantling systemic ableism to make academics and the arts more inclusive and accessible to people with any disability is her passion.