Michael Cole
Wichita State University
Educational Accessibility Technologist
Wichita, KS
Michael is the Educational Accessibility Technologist at Wichita State University, where he spends his days reviewing and testing software, hardware, curriculum, and the infrastructure of the school and making recommendations for implementing universal design that is accessible to people across a spectrum of capabilities. He also teaches for the English department and has built the university's first LGBTQIA literature course, to launch in Spring 2018.
Michael is also a collaborator on the upcoming graphic novel The Cardboard Kingdom with artist Chad Sell, to be released by Knopf in Summer 2018.
In his spare time, Michael is grieving over lost squadmates in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. He has three dogs and never gets a good night's sleep.