Devon West is a UNT alumnus who served as the president of the Blind and Visually Impaired Alliance from 2019 through spring 2021 and worked in the Center for Learning Experimentation, Application, and Research as an accessibility specialist in the Summer of 2020. He is a disability rights advocate and works as an accessibility coordinator in an educational digital publishing company. His particular focus is in social and political reform in the realm of disability rights as well as Universal Design for Learning.