Kathleen McCarty, MA, CPT, CIFT, Oregon State University 

Kathy is a queer, asthmatic, first-generation college graduate and Doctoral Candidate in kinesiology and adapted physical activity at Oregon State University. Her dissertation work is focused on equity and access in collegiate sports offerings for students with disabilities and supports efforts to create a national, Title IX-mirroring policy for disability. Kathy is also a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation where she is learning to bring critical and intersectional lenses to her work and life, towards social and policy change.  

Kathy earned her Master’s in kinesiology and rehabilitation science from San Diego State University. Her thesis and projects involved older adult falls self-efficacy and center of pressure, inclusion practices at the local YMCA, and founding the adaptive sports program at San Diego State.  

Outside of work, Kathy represented the USA on the 2016-2017 US Ladies Rink Hockey team during the World Roller Games in China and played roller derby under the name Samwise Banshee.