Biography
Presenting Disability Programs, Minors and Departments: A National Glance
Mikila Salazar is the academic advisor for the Disability Studies Minor and the Adapted Sports program.
She graduated from UTA in 2019 with a B.A. in Journalism and a Minor in Disability Studies. She also played five years of wheelchair basketball with the Lady Movin’ Mavs wheelchair basketball team and was a part of the program’s first two national championships. In 2022, Mikila graduated with her M.A. in Communication from UTA.
During her time in the DS Minor, she took the following classes: History of Disability, Universal Design, Disability & Art, Sport & Society, Art & the Human Condition, and Disability Studies Minor Internship. For her Disability Studies Minor internship, she interned with Arlington Mayor’s Committee on People with Disabilities and Arlington Parks & Recreation. In her internship, she created a master document of resources in the Arlington and DFW area that included information on adapted sports programs in the area. In addition, she also researched and created a document with tips and resources on how to make websites ADA accessible and researched and created a guide of local parks in the Arlington area that listed accessible and non-accessible amenities in each park.