Dr. Chase is a person with a visual impairment. He began working with students with visual impairments in 2005 on college transition and access through temporary state service and the nonprofit sector. He has served as a teacher, school administrator, and adjunct faculty member in North Carolina and Tennessee. While in Tennessee, Dr. Chase supervised DeafBlind interveners and teachers of students with significant disabilities, including DeafBlindness, at the TN School for the Blind and was the liaison between the school and the DeafBlind Project. He has been published in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. Previously, Dr. Chase served on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired as well as Chairperson of the North Carolina Conference on Visual Impairment and Blindness. Presently, he serves on the Association for the Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind and Visually Impaired’s Accreditation Committee for Organizations and Schools. In 2008, Dr. Chase established a nonprofit organization for youth with visual impairments focused on transition. Currently, Dr. Chase is also a Consultant for Visual Impairment at the NC Department of Public Instruction. His doctoral dissertation focused on educational policy as it relates to schools for the blind.