Dr. Patti Ralabate is the author of “Your UDL Lesson Planner: The Step-by-Step Guide to Teaching All Learners” and co-author of "Culturally Responsive Design: The UDL Approach" and "Your UDL Journey." After completing a Boston College - CAST UDL postdoctoral fellowship, she served as CAST Director of Implementation, National Center on UDL Director, National UDL Task Force co-chair, and director of the Gates UDL-PDS project. Building on 25 years of experience teaching in Connecticut as a speech-language pathologist and 9 years as the NEA policy analyst for special and gifted education, she currently provides UDL workshops and implementation team consultation across the country and is a part-time faculty member at the George Washington University.