Presenter Bio - Michelle Shaw

Michelle Shaw currently serves as the Director of Student Accessibility Services at Florida Atlantic University.

Michelle Shaw earned her Bachelor of Arts in Education and Visual Arts & Master’s in Education in Curriculum and Design with an emphasis in Exceptional Student Education at Florida Atlantic University. She has been working in disability services for 21 years. She has extensive experience in many areas of disability office operation including testing, volunteer coordination, consulting, assistive technology, ClockWork database admin and has served as the Director for 10 years.

ADA Coordinator Certified since 2021. She has been an active member of the Association on Higher Education and Disabilities (AHEAD) and the FL-AHEAD group since 2005. Served a three-year term as Florida AHEAD President (2021-2023).

Michelle has presented a variety of topics at the National AHEAD Conferences in 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024. She has been active and presented at the Independent Colleges and Universities Compliance and Ethics Consortium at Lynn University since 2018. Topics include: Emotional Support Animals versus Service Dogs, How to track your data confidentiality, Working with Athletes with Disabilities, Importance of Closed/Live Captions, Working with Students on the Spectrum to name a few. She has also been an Adjunct faculty member in the College of Education since 2003 (ARE 4313: Art for Elementary Education).