Ela Callow is the Director of the Office of Disability Access and Compliance and Chief ADA/504 Compliance Officer for the University of California, Berkeley. She has a J.D. from Berkeley School of Law and has practiced law since 2001. Prior to working for UC Berkeley, Ms. Callow served for 12 years as Legal Director for the National Center on Parents with Disabilities and their Families, a NIDILRR funded research, policy and legislative program. She has written federal reports, peer-reviewed articles, and book chapters on the topics of disability rights, the intersection of disability/indigenous nations, and the parenting rights of persons with disabilities in the U.S. judicial system.

Ms. Callow has organized and keynoted national and international disability parenting rights conferences, participated in White House panels on eugenics, disability, tribal nations and child welfare, and successfully participated in multiple state legislative efforts to increase protections for parents with disabilities and their children.