Tonya Engst

Tonya began working as a digital content editor for the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability in 2019. In this role, she edits the course materials for the Work Incentive Support Center, and she edits content for several websites, including NortheastADA.org, DisabilityBenefitsAtWork.org, and the Just-in-Time Disability toolkits. She also writes articles about the institute for various Cornell websites, and she assists with maintaining content on the Yang-Tan Institute website.

Prior to joining the institute, Tonya worked at TidBITS, an online publishing company and tech blog that she co-founded in 1990. At TidBITS, her most notable role was editor-in-chief of an ebook imprint about technology topics. She has also worked at Microsoft as a Word support engineer, edited books for Peachpit Press, authored/co-authored six books, and written dozens of articles for publications such as Macworld and BYTE.

Tonya has a BS in Communication from Cornell University.