Justin Mark Hideaki Salisbury, MEd, NOMC, NCRTB, currently serves as a research fellow in the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research agenda is guided by the pressing needs expressed and demonstrated by the organized blind, especially when those needs relate to potential policy problems and solutions. One of his major research areas is disability employment, and he is working in the Innovative Partnership for the Advancement of Rehabilitation Research & Training (IPARRT) lab, investigating factors associated with job retention for disabled workers. He is interested in the parts of disability inclusion that reach beyond mere compliance with legal accessibility mandates, as well as how other oppressive systems intersect with the education and rehabilitation of the blind. Street-level bureaucracy theory has been developed by researching rehabilitation counselors, but it is seldom discussed in vocational rehabilitation spaces; Justin studies disability service providers as street-level bureaucrats. To study how policies are affecting blind people, Justin takes the novel approach of asking blind people themselves how the policies affect them.
Justin is a Structured Discovery® practitioner and has also worked as a design laboratory assistant, economic research fellow, legislative aide, cane travel instructor, rehabilitation teacher for the blind, and coordinator of educational programs. He holds a B. A. in mathematics and economics, an M. A. in counseling and guidance with dual specializations in orientation and mobility and rehabilitation teaching, and an M. Ed. in educational leadership and policy studies.
