Megan Conway, PhD, is the Director of Information, Research and Professional Development (IRPD) at the Helen Keller National Center. She joined HKNC in 2019 as a Research and Accessibility Specialist after 18 years as a faculty member at the University of Hawaii. She holds a Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of California, Berkeley. Megan’s experiences as a DeafBlind person have motivated her to focus her career on access to education, the workplace and community life for DeafBlind people and other people with disabilities. During her time at IRPD she has led research projects focused on employment, haptics, audio description, the use of touch during orientation and mobility, and better access to data about people who are DeafBlind. Megan currently lives in California with her teenage daughter and an energetic Hearing Dog named Penina. Outside of work she enjoys reading hiking, cooking and yoga.