Dr Michelle L Bonati is an Assistant Professor in Teacher Education at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh and an Associate at the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at the University of Sydney. She earned her PhD in Special Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her research interests include examining service-learning as a context for developing inclusive K-12 schools, universities, and communities in the US, Australia, and Indonesia.