Marcel Edward

I started in engineering and ended up in classrooms. Sitting in front of a computer for the next thirty years (like I am doing right now) was not what I wanted then. Though, as it turns out, the computer comes with you wherever you go.

For nearly a decade I taught math to students with learning disabilities, building lessons in the concrete-representational- abstract tradition and chairing a math department along the way. That work pulled me deeper into educational technology, and eventually toward the place I find most interesting: the intersection of disability, communication, and software.

Today I work in assistive technology: eye-tracking devices, augmentative and alternative communication, and the small, stubborn problems that decide whether a student gets to speak, move, learn, and belong. In the evenings I write code that makes those tools a little easier for the people who depend on them.