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Ralf Hotchkiss
Wheelchair-rider;
engineer, inventor; Whirlwind co-founder; currently Whirlwind Chief Engineer
and principal instructor in Whirlwind wheelchair design class; Women Pushing
Forward (formerly Whirlwind Women) Advisory Board member; for 35+ years
a wheelchair-designer - builder - trainer; 1989 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
and recipient of countless other honors and awards; has worked in 42 countries
teaching people who need wheelchairs how to build and maintain them for
themselves.
Bob Incerti
Bob
Incerti, Instructor in wheelchair design and fabrication. Graduate of
SFSU Design and Industry Department. Vietnam Veteran. Career in residential
construction. Lived and taught outdoor education in Kenya and Lesotho.
Has volunteered in outdoor education in the SF Bay Area for 25 years.
Has worked with Whirlwind in both a volunteer and employee capacity since
1998.
Marc Krizack
Social Entrepreneur, organizational development specialist, lawyer and activist for disability rights. Whirlwind Executive Director since 2003. Conceived and led development of Whirlwind's Franchise Network. A former wheelchair mechanic at the UC Berkeley Disabled Students Program in late 70's and early 80's, throughout the 90's he helped transform a disabled sports club in Novosibirsk (Siberia) into Russia's first independent living center and helped establish the first university level disabled students program in Russia. He is a contributing author and member of the editorial committee of the recently published World Health Organization Guidelines on the Provision of Manual Wheelchairs in Less Resourced Settings.
Keoke King
Keoke studied Whirlwind as part of his MBA work in social entrepreneurship at SFSU. Afterwards, he joined the team as Marketing Director in the summer of 2009. He has a background in non-profit fundraising and hopes to be a career do-gooder. He's been a sucker for strategy games since playing Risk endlessly as a kid. Now, he likes to bring business principles to organizations which are committed to building social value through sustainable and scalable strategies.
Alida Lindsley
Alida is a product designer with a degree from Stanford, and is currently In charge of Whirlwind's program on international wheelchair standards for developing countries. Previously, she worked for Beneficial Designs in the design and development of a universal design canoe seat. She also assisted on design projects including wheelchair cushion testing devices and equipment and wheelchair seating components.
Matt McCambridge
returns to Whirlwind as a permanent team member, following years of volunteer work dating back to his graduation from Stanford's Product Design program in 1998. In the intervening years Matt has worked on the stair-climbing, self-balancing IBOT power wheelchair created by inventor Dean Kamen (best known for the Segway scooter), and spent almost three years in the Philippines establishing a new wheelchair factory and service network for French NGO Handicap International. Matt brings engineering skills and a focus on design process, as well as first-hand experience with the challenges of creating a robust local service provision network.
Pat Murphy
Pat Murphy is the Whirlwind Wheelchair International accountant. In the rest of her work life, she is the accountant for Community Health Works, a program of the Department. of Health Education at SFSU; the Founding Director of Josie’s Place for Bereaved Youth and Families, a SF non-profit, and a Certified Life Coach.
Jamie Noon
For over 10 years, Jamie Noon has been providing clinical and technical training in wheelchair seating and mobility in the US and in developing countries, including Russia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nicaragua, Mexico, Tanzania, China, and Colombia He has worked as a seating and mobility clinician at the Rehab Engineering Center at Stanford. For 20 years he has been developing innovative seating designs and commercial products in the US and Europe. He consults with commercial and non-profit organizations throughout the world.
Joan Rogin
Long time volunteer with Whirlwind and Women Pushing Forward (originally Whirlwind Women). Writer, editor of Whirlwind publications, Keeper of the Mailing list. Retired from University of California administration.
Aaron Wieler
joined the Whirlwind design team this year. After an introduction to industrial design for mobility technology through the Lemelson Assistive Technology Development Center at Hampshire College, he joined Whirlwind for a summer internship in 2006, working on the design of alternative wheelchair propulsion technology. Since then, he taught a course at Hampshire on the design and implementation of "Appropriate Technology" and spent a year in Namibia, working on the design, fabrication, and establishment of small-scale production of bicycle-pulled ambulances for use by rural health care workers in Namibia. Aaron specializes in design processes informed by iterative design and rapid prototyping but is rapidly learning and incorporating CAD in his work.
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