February 2016

Gregg Beratan – Educational Consultant, Disability Rights Activists

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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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Jason Ménard – Ability First, Digital Echidna

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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

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  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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Jeff King & Donna Miller – Enterprise

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Donna Miller & Jeff King   Awaiting Quality Captions The Corporate Officers within Enterprise each champion certain strands of Diversity.  Donna and Jeff are both Disability Champions.  Donna introduced Enterprise to the Business Disability Forum and signed Enterprise up for membership. Enterprise have embraced the BDFand are active members with Jeff recently taking on the Co-Chair

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Marcy Sutton – Engineer, Blogger, Accessibility Advocate

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  Awaiting Quality Captions Marcy Sutton is an accessibility advocate and engineer from Seattle. She currently works for Deque on their aXe tool and was a core contributor to the Angular framework and is passionate about tooling to help developers improve the web for people with disabilities. Her blog, Accessibility Wins, highlights accessible user interfaces and tools,

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