Ability

Nancy Doyle – Work and Organisational Psychologist, Neurodiversity Specialist, Social Entrepreneur, Founder of Genius Within CIC

Awaiting Quality Captions Nancy is a Consultant Occupational Psychologist based in the UK and the USA; a dual national.  Nancy has worked in organisational consultancy, neurodiversity and social inclusion, as overlapping specialisms until 2011 when she founded Genius Within CIC, a non-profit enterprise which now employs around 100 people.  Genius Within delivers positive assessments, coaching, […]

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Dr. Flip Schrameijer – Sociologist, Mental health specialist, Novelist, & Founder of Architecture for Autism

Awaiting Quality Captions Flip is a Dutch sociologist with a PhD in social psychology who worked for seventeen years at the Netherlands Centre for Mental Health as a researcher and manager. Self-employed since 1996 as a researcher, writer and consultant. Wrote several books on mental health issues (two about the problems and treatment of disturbed

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Peter Armstrong – Manager of Digital Content, Accessible Media Inc. (AMI)

 Awaiting Quality Captions Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) Manager of Digital Content Peter Armstrong has more than 10 years’ experience in digital marketing. He’s developed a passion for and expertise in accessibility while working with people with disabilities during the last five years. Prior to joining AMI in September, 2015, he worked with the Toronto 2015

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Alexandra Kutas – Ukrainian Fashion Model

Audio interview (it wasn’t possible to record in video due to network incidents)   Alexandra Kutas works together with the Mayor of Dnipro, Borys Filatov, and a team of specialists as a consultant and liaison on disability and universal access issues. Together they are striving to make her city more accessible for everyone. She is

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John Robinson

Quality Captions Available In 2014, John Robinson was named one of ten national White House Champions of Change for Disability Employment and honored with the Excelsior College President’s Award for Advocacy in 2010. Since 2011, he’s served as managing partner, CEO and Founder of Our Ability, which provides inclusive workforce and employment consulting, mentoring, workshops,

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Rama Gheerawo – Director at The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHC), Royal College of Art

Awaiting Quality Captions Rama Gheerawo is Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and the RCA Reader in Inclusive Design. With nearly two decades in the design industry, his interest is in people-centred and socially inclusive design. He leads the Centre’s Age & Ability research lab which creates design that improves the lives of people of

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Gregg Beratan – Educational Consultant, Disability Rights Activists

Awaiting Quality Captions Gregg Beratan is an Educational consultant and disability rights activist. He has taught in Universities and worked in disability rights organizations in The United States, England, Poland and India. His research has focused primarily on the ways in which our understandings of disability have served to shape and limit inclusive education in

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Angel Giuffria – Actress, Self-proclaimed Cyborg

  Captions Available As long as Angel Giuffria can remember, she’s been interested in performing. From youth theater to convincing her parents to enroll her in an expensive acting school that ended up being too far from their home, she always wanted to play pretend. Angel was also born missing her left forearm. This is

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Susanna Laurin (FunkaNu)

Captions Available Susanna Laurin has a long experience in working with disability-related issues at senior management level, for instance as CEO of one of the subsidiaries of the Swedish Association of the Visually Impaired’s corporate group IRIS, and the Swedish Independent Living Institute. She is a frequent international lecturer and debater and she serves on a number of program

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Rachel Neaman – CEO of Go ON UK

  Captions available. Rachel is Chief Executive of Go ON UK, the cross-sector digital skills charity that works to ensure all individuals, small businesses and charities in the UK have the basic digital skills they need to prosper in an increasingly digital world. She is also Chair of the Digital Leaders programme (http://digitalleaders.co.uk/), a network

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