Biography

Michele began working for the Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service in 2000. During the first 10 years, she focused on multimedia and video production and became the Acting Deputy Associate Manager of HFC\'s Audiovisual Group in January, 2009. In the fall of 2010, she accepted the newly created Media Accessibility Coordinator position at HFC and now provides technical assistance, outreach, training, and resources to staff and parks.

Her accessibility projects include written service-wide recommendations for open captions, revisions to sections of the Programmatic Accessibility Guidelines for National Park Service Interpretive Media, consultation and supervision during the service-wide captioning, audio description and assistive listening initiative, and coordination and development of audio description training. She has served on HFC\'s Accessibility Committee since 2003 and the NPS Service-Wide Accessibility Coordinating Committee since 2010. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin and an MA in Folk Studies with a focus on working in the public sector from Western Kentucky University.