Cynthia Curry

Cynthia is Director of the National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials & Instruction (NCADEMI or "N-cademy") at Utah State University, a technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs. She has provided state, regional, and national training and technical assistance on digital accessibility since 2000. Starting her career as a secondary science teacher, she has enjoyed diverse roles in the pursuit of more accessible digital learning environments in preK–12 and higher education. With the Maine Department of Education’s Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), she served as a Statewide Technology Integration Mentor for ten years, providing training to districts on making 1:1 technology programs accessible to learners who use assistive technology (AT). For Maine CITE, the state’s AT Act Program, she led statewide trainings during the early implementation of the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC) and the acquisition and use of accessible educational materials (AEM). At the University of Southern Maine, Cynthia was a lecturer and director of a five-year personnel development project funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), Transforming Teaching through Collaborative Teacher Education. During this time, she founded the Maine Teacher Preparation Collaborative to help pre-service programs better prepare new general and special education teachers in the use of AT and AEM in instruction. Cynthia served as Disability Services Coordinator and an instructional designer at the University of New England before joining CAST’s technical assistance team in 2016. During seven years at CAST, she provided leadership to two OSEP-funded TA centers, the National AEM Center and the Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems (CITES). In 2024, Cynthia joined the Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice at USU to bridge opportunities between WebAIM and the Center for Technical Assistance for Excellence in Special Education (TAESE) for new and innovative digital accessibility solutions for educational agencies.