Disabilities

Sarah Lee – Advocate, Writer, and Systems Administrator at Ruh Global Communications

 Awaiting Quality Captions Sarah Lee received her Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her concentrations include history, political science, and anthropology. Unsure of what to do after completing her undergraduate coursework, Sarah worked as a cook. After backpacking through Alaska, Canada, Europe, and South Korea, Sarah decided to go back to school and […]

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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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Stefan Trömel – Senior Disability Specialist of The International Labour Organization (ILO)

Awaiting Quality Captions   Stefan Trömel, Senior Disability Specialist in the International Labour Organization (ILO) since August 2013. His current duties include the coordination of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network. Between 2008 and 2013, held the position of Executive Director of the International Disability Alliance, the global umbrella organization of organizations of persons

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Aurélien Levy – CEO of Temesis

Awaiting Quality Captions Aurélien is CEO of Temesis, a French company working on digital accessibility and quality. He works as a consultant and he is one of the main authors of the French government’s accessibility guidelines RGAA version 1 and 2. He is also and international speaker (CSUN, Funka accessibility days, A11y Québec, Confoo Montreal, etc)

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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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John Kemp – President & CEO of The Viscardi Center

Quality Captions Available      John D. Kemp is the President & CEO of The Viscardi Center, a network of non-profit organizations that provide a lifespan of services that educate, employ and empower children and adults with disabilities, based in Albertson, NY. He is widely respected for his many achievements, both in the corporate and non-profit

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Kevin Ruh – CMO at Ruh Global Communications

Awaiting Quality Captions   Kevin Ruh is the Chief Marketing Officer at Ruh Global Communications. Kevin manages all digital marketing for the global firm. Kevin has been around disabilities his entire life. His older sister, Sara Ruh was born with Down syndrome. Kevin’s experience in working with people with disabilities started at a young age. At 16, he

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Sarah Simcoe – Head of Business Enablement at Fujitsu

Awaiting Quality Captions We had a few technical issues with the sound so Antonio is not audible. Sarah Simcoe is Head of Business Enablement within Fujitsu UK and Ireland’s Business & Application Services business.  Sarah is also the Chair of Fujitsu UK and Ireland’s Disability Employee Network, SEED, a role she has held for the

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Jason Ménard – Ability First, Digital Echidna

Awaiting Quality Captions The Ability First Coalition is a community initiative; a group of volunteers from various sectors of business that raise awareness of disability issues in the London and area workforce. This business-to-business partnership aims to bring employers together to share best practices related to hiring and retaining people with disabilities. Jason Ménard is Content

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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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