Tawny McManus is the Assistant Vice Provost for Accessibility & Disability Services and Director of the Office of Student Disability Services in the Division of Academic Affairs at UMBC. She is a member of the University System of Maryland’s Accessible Technology & Information Workgroup, an executive board member of MD-AHEAD, former liaison to the American Psychological Association's Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology, and serves on UMBC's Academic Re-opening Planning Committee. She has worked in postsecondary education for 16 years.