Accessibility and UDL as Partners in Inclusion: From Compliance to Belonging

About the Presenters

Brian St. Amour holds an MBA in marketing and brings extensive experience in professional eServices and eLearning technologies, serving both industry and higher education. He has a proven track record in service strategy, operations, software and services product development, customer satisfaction, and retention. Brian’s expertise includes distance education technologies, eServices strategy, and policy development, as well as faculty and student training, consultation, user experience, partner programs, alliance partnerships, global team leadership, service operations, and customer advocacy.

Currently, Brian leads strategic planning and service operations within the eLearning offices at Temple College, ensuring compliance with institutional, state, and regional accrediting policies. He supports a large, diverse population of online students, faculty, and course sections, chairs eLearning advisory committees, and collaborates across departments to advance effective, scalable, and inclusive eLearning environments. An Adjunct Business Professor, Brian teaches online and face-to-face courses and actively contributes to regional, state, and national distance learning associations.

A nationally recognized expert in accessible educational materials and Universal Design for Learning, Skip Stahl accrued extensive experience in advising education stakeholders—including states, district leaders, publishers, and policymakers—on how to make learning environments and products more effective and inclusive for all. Skip was formerly Co-director of the federally funded National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM Center), where he led a national initiative to assure that educational materials are developed and distributed in ways that are accessible, appropriate, and readily available to all students. He was also CAST’s Project Director for the Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities, a partnership with the University of Kansas and the National Association of State Directors of Special Education. Skip’s experience as one of CAST’s five founding staff members provides an active historical perspective to support the organization’s future.

Lilly Shaw is an undergraduate student at the George Washington University studying Health Data Science and Music and serving as the 2026 UDL Awards Intern. She is passionate about accessibility in education and values the positive impact UDL can have on the student experience. In 2024, she contributed a student piece on UDL in the classroom to Multiple Voices: Disability, Race, and Language Intersections in Special Education, In Service of Equity? Exploring Universal Design for Learning’s Transformative Potential, Do UDL. In 2025, she served as a panelist at the UDL CON panel Guidelines 3.0: Stories of Impact from Across the UDL Community, providing the student perspective. When she’s not working, you can find Lilly singing with her campus choir or listening to music.

As the Senior Director of Disability & Accessibility for CAST, Luis Perez promotes the creation, delivery, and use of high-quality accessible educational materials and technologies to support learning opportunities for all students. He is embedded with the Postsecondary and Workforce Development group at CAST, and in this role, he works to increase access to middle- and high-income careers for everyone. Luis is also a co-host of the CAST podcast, The Learning Experience, with new episodes launching monthly. His perspective is informed by his own experiences as a user of assistive technology.