Program Assistant
kvbattoe@syr.eduKate Battoe is a Program Assistant at the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, where she assists with managing the Disability Rights Bar Association membership, serving as the point person for processing new student and attorney members.
Kate joined BBI in March 2012. She has worked on BBI’s Demand Side Employment project, which studies employment patterns of people with disabilities and seeks to educate employers and employees to increase job retention rates. She has also assisted with research on various projects, written monthly articles for BBI’s newsletter, worked extensively with the Technical Assistance and Continuing Education Center (TACE) collecting, analyzing, and writing reports based on training session data, and played a major role in creating the Communication Hope through Assistive Technology (CHAT) pilot camp in 2013. Outside of BBI, Kate is a public speaker on many aspects of living with a disability. She has been a guest speaker at Syracuse University’s graduate classes on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), and she helps train employees at Advocates Inc. on presuming competence, caregiver versus support staff mindsets, and different methods of communication.
Kate holds a B.A. in history from Le Moyne College, and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law.