Awaiting Quality Captions Frances West is a champion for the rights for persons with disabilities on a global scale. Frances served as IBM’s first Chief Accessibility Officer, as well as the Director of the IBM Human Ability & Accessibility Center until June 2016. Since retiring from IBM, Frances founded FrancesWestCo, a company providing inclusive digital […]
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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,
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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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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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
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
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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Awaiting Quality Captions Kathy Bernhardt is the Managing Director of Tangram Business Resourcing. She has over 15 years of successfully establishing corporate and community relationships. Kathy’s entrepreneurial passion, drive and vision helped Tangram develop and implement Tangram Business Resourcing, a consultative service that helps businesses establish diversity-inclusive workplaces. As the leader of this service, Kathy
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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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Awaiting Quality Captions Abeer Shakweer is the advisor to the Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology for Social Responsibility and Services. She holds a Ph.D., in Engineering, and a M.Sc. in Computer Science, both form the University of Nottingham in the UK. Dr. Shakweer worked as an advisor to Scientific Research and Innovation
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