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Ashley Shew is an associate professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. Her current research sits at the intersection of technology studies, biotech ethics, and disability studies. She is recipient of an NSF CAREER Award for work on disability narrative about technology, and a principal investigator of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Higher Learning project that supports the creation of a regional Disability Community Technology (DisCoTec) Center providing guidance for developing disabled-led technology and disability-forward technological futures through humanities-based scholarship and disability justice education, arts, and outreach. Shew is the author of Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (2023) and a forthcoming open textbook, co-edited with Hanna Herdegen, Technology and Disability. Both books focus on the stories disabled people tell about technologies that people do not always expect.