empowerment

Vint Cerf & David Bray

People Centred Internet Initiative People-Centered Internet (PCI) believes in putting humanity – people and their needs and aspirations – at the center of the Internet. They are committed to using the power of the Internet to improve the lives of the global poor by collecting data that can be used to transform communities and meet […]

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Rosemary Musachio – CPACC, Chief Accessibility Officer at Ruh Global Communications,

Awaiting Quality Captions When Rosemary was born on September 13, 1966 at an American naval hospital in Pozzuoli, Italy, the doctor asked her parents, “What will you do with her?”  Her parents looked at each other and thought he was crazy.  The ignorant physician asked because she had brain damage, which resulted in cerebral palsy. 

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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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Karolyn Gehrig – Artist & Founder of #HospitalGlam

Captions available Karolyn Gehrig is a queer disabled artist & writer. She began advocacy work for other patients in 2006, and recently spoke at Stanford MedicineX. Her project #HospitalGlam, is a photo-based social movement about reclaiming clinical space for patients so they can better advocate for themselves. Below are a couple of pics but for more

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