Stuart Pixley has been a Senior Attorney at Microsoft for over 12 years where he currently supports the Quantum Computing and Silicon Solutions teams. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked for law firms in New York City and Silicon Valley handling complex intellectual property and technology transactions for high-tech, semiconductor and life science clients.

For more than a decade, Stuart has been a leading advocate for disability inclusion in the legal profession as a leader, organizer and speaker. He is a former co-chair and current member of the Washington Attorneys with Disabilities Association, is the former president and founding board member of the National Association of Attorneys with Disabilities, is a former commissioner of the ABA Commission on Disability Rights, has served on the Committee for Diversity for the Washington State Bar Association and is the current co-lead for the Disability Inclusion Network for Microsoft’s Corporate External and Legal Affairs department.

Born with congenital rubella, he has significant hearing and vision loss and travels by electric wheelchair.

Kenneth H Schell is a California-based pharmacist with more than 30 years’ experience in clinical pharmacology and pharmaceutical science, including overseeing pharmacy operations in pediatric and adult hospitals, medical groups, home infusion, hospice and mail order organizations. He is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Skaggs UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences where he teaches Pharmacy Law and Ethics.

Ken is an expert in multiple areas of hospital pharmacy. He has successfully overseen the installation of the EPIC electronic medical record system at the Rady Children’s Hospital in 2011 and facilitated the construction and move of the Sharp Grossmont Hospital Pharmacy in 2016 which included the construction of a State of the Art sterile compounding clean room that complies with USP 797 standard.

Ken also serves on the Sharp Healthcare Institutional Review Board. Appointed soon after he joined Sharp Healthcare, he has reviewed and participated in recommendations to numerous investigational studies ensuring the conform with Federal Safety and Ethical standards.

In addition to his clinical and operational health-system pharmacy expertise, Ken has extensive board and leadership involvement in Industry Organizations, including serving as president of the California State Board of Pharmacy and on the Board of Directors of the California Society of Health System Pharmacists as well as being appointed to the CSHP Blue Ribbon Committee on Bylaws review.

Ken also served extensively in Regulatory Compliance and Privacy roles having worked as a Compliance Manager at Kaiser Permanente’s National Compliance Office and as Vice President/Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer at Prescription Solutions (now Optum Rx)

Ken has been recognized by his colleagues and academic institutions have been selected to be a recipient of UC San Francisco School of Pharmacy’s 150 year anniversary Alumni Excellence award and was selected as Pharmacist of the Year by the California Society of Health-system Pharmacists. Additionally, Ken was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Health-system Pharmacists in 2000 and a Fellow of the California Society of Health-system Pharmacists in 1993.

Ken has made over a 100 presentations both formal and informal to community groups, pre- and post graduate institution groups and professional groups. He has also been selected as a keynote speaker to several Pharmacy Institutions.

Ken holds a Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of California, San Francisco and has earned his Certification in Privacy Practice from the International Association of Privacy Practitioners.

Kendra Muller is currently a second-year law student at the University of San Diego School of Law (USD), where she is pursuing international and domestic disability law. She enjoys collaborating across disciplines and combining law, policy, and research to provide comprehensive solutions and ideas to benefit the community. Before entering law school, she graduated with a bachelor of neuropsychology and worked as a research associate for the Global Truth Commission Index, analyzing human rights violations in post-conflict countries. Her undergraduate work on transitional justice inspired her to found the Equal Access and Disability Rights Commission providing research and advocacy for excluded and underrepresented students in higher education.

Kendra currently works as a law clerk for Disability Rights California where she has relished working with brilliant attorneys in several complex litigation cases for homeless discrimination, equal access, and reasonable accommodations. Kendra is an active member of the San Diego County Bar Association Different Abilities Group and is currently a committee member to the ABA Commission on Disability Rights. In her spare time, Kendra enjoys hiking and works with The Nature Collective to ensure hikes are accessible for all. As a Disability Rights Now advisor, she is excited to collaborate with colleagues to provide employers with the tools to see disability as an asset to the professional and academic community.

Michael Burke was born in June of 1953 in Los Angeles, California. He was the youngest of the children in an Irish-Catholic family. His father, a lawyer and accountant who specialized in tax and probate law, was raised in Clinton, Iowa, while his mother was raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

When Michael Burke was 3 years old, his family moved to San Diego, where he was raised. He attended UC San Diego for his Freshman and Sophomore years of College, and transferred to UC Santa Cruz, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. He received his law degree at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and was “sworn in” to the California Bar in December of 1981.

He set up his office in downtown San Diego and joined the El Centro CJA panel in March of 1982. He served on the material witness panel from 1984-1986. He served on the CJA active defense panel in San Diego from 1986 to 1988. He continued to serve on the CJA active defense panel from 1992 to November of last year. He did not apply to remain on the CJA Panel due to the pandemic.

Michael Burke got married to Edith del Rosario Padilla-Velazquez, an accountant from Mexicali, B.C. in December of 1996. They have a son, Brendan Burke, who turned 18 in December. Brendan has autism and attends a private school which specializes in bringing out the extraordinary talents of “special needs” children like Brendan. Michael, Edith and Brendan Burke live happily together in Mission Hills.

Michael Burke participated in an intense acting workshop for around three years in the late 1980's which met twice a week, and required three practice sessions between workshops. In each class he performed one scripted scene and one improvisational scene. When Michael was in trial, he practiced his closing arguments before the acting workshop, about the size of a jury, and got feedback. He noticed an unmistakable correlation between acting and trial work. In his first three trials in federal court, where the conviction rate is 95%, he got one hung jury, one conviction, and one acquittal. The workshop emphasized that to be persuasive, one must truly believe everything he is saying to the jury. He continued with acting by participating in plays presented by the San Diego Irish Players. Years later, he attended “regionals” presented by Gerry Spence, and felt very privileged to meet Gerry Spence and hear him speak. He had observed the incredible results his students were achieving in trial, including winning seemingly impossible cases. Michael found that his acting background, even though it had been quite a while since he had acted, made it much easier to apply the Spence method.

Almost 10 years ago, in January of 2010, Michael Burke was about to get in his car to meet another panel attorney for breakfast before going to the office. Since a Palm Tree had fallen on his car, Michael Burke asked his friend to pick him up. When his friend arrived, Michael asked him to go back to the disabled car, so as to retrieve a computer and some legal materials. Just as Michael placed those materials in the back of his friend’s SUV, a palm tree, which was next to the palm tree which fell on the car, fell on Mike’s legs, breaking the pelvis, both femurs, and the fibula and tibia bones. In addition, the artery below the right knee was ruptured, and the outstanding team of doctors at the UCSD Hospital ER could not stop the bleeding. His wife Edith was told that the chance of living through the night was 50-50. We later learned from other medical experts that the odds were closer to 90% against survival. Michael Burke pulled through, however, after spending more than a year in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. Due primarily to extensive nerve damage in both legs, he is unable to walk, and requires a wheelchair for mobility. In 2011, Michael Burke returned to his federal court panel work, where he continued to represent indigent clients facing federal charges until the pandemic. Michael Burke has been recognized by Super-Lawyer as a “top rated criminal defense attorney.”

Dan Lynch is a seasoned senior executive with more than 40 years of extensive experience in sales, marketing, international sourcing, product development, and quality assurance, as well as a successful entrepreneur and business owner. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance and marketing from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before beginning his career in sales and marketing, working with a number of major brands around the United States, United Kingdom, and Asia. Throughout his career, Dan has remained a big part of the Illinois swimming community and has served as an official for NCAA Swimming, USA Swimming, and the Collegiate Swimming Officials Association (CSOA) for many years. His love for swimming, coupled with his impressive technical knowledge of the sport, inspired him to create a tool to help swimmers perfect their stroke. Dan founded the Swim Stroke Doctor, a revolutionary underwater video system that provides a new and exciting way to analyze swim strokes, in 2012 and serves as the director of the company. Swim Stroke Doctor uses a grading system and active kinesiology method to help swimmers create an individualized program to improve their technical stroke, reduce their risk of injury, improve their strength, and achieve their athletic goals.

Dan is also the creative director and designer at Daniel Lynch Celtic. He creates modern yet classic Irish, Celtic, and Scottish products ranging from wallets and luggage tags to shot glasses and everything in between. Dan finds his inspiration in Ireland’s history, pieces like the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels, Irish dance, and the beautiful Gaelic language.