Shout-out for Aasta Thomas, Troy Hurteau, Alexa Carter

Aasta Thomas , Troy Hurteau , Alexa Carter

Last week's Accessibility in STEM Conference was amazing and part of the reason why was because of great library colleagues like Aasta Thomas, Alexa Carter and Troy Hurteau. Alexa did such a great job working with the College of Engineering to get put the event together and make sure everyone felt at welcome at Hunt Library.

Aasta and Troy took time away from their conference/work day to help with our basic document accessibility workshop. While all of my workshop plans didn't go exactly as I had imagined, Troy and Aasta made it all work whether it was locating emergency microphones or discussing alt-text for complicated circuit diagrams. The attendees were great and we had a super collaborative session where I think everyone learned something.

I feel so lucky to work with such smart, talented, helpful, and supportive colleagues!

- Beth Ashmore, Jan 12, 2026