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

Interview / Neil Milliken / June 5, 2017 / Advocate for Persons with Disabilities, anthropology, Disabilities, disability, disability and inclusion, Epilepsy, inclusion, millennial, millennial's making change, millennials, petit mal syndrome, Petite Mal, Political Science, pwd, Seizures, Social Justice, South Korea, VCU, Virginia Commonwealth University, Writer

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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Jake Abma – Accessibility Lead for ING Netherlands

Interview / Neil Milliken / May 29, 2017 / #a11y, Accesibility, Accessibility Guild, Barclays, bbc, CRPD, disability, Dutch ING, G3ICT, inclusion, ING, ING Netherlands, IT, Ministry of Internal Affairs, networking, Product Owner for Team A11Y, Product Owners, Spotify, Team A11Y, UN, UN CRPD, UX, WCAG, Web Guidelines, WEG

Awaiting Quality Captions Accessibility Lead for ING Netherlands For the last four years Jake has set up a raft of initiatives to make sure products and services are accessible to people with the widest range of capabilities. He’s a passionate promoter of accessibility both inside and outside the Bank. Product Owner ING has introduced different

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

Interview / Neil Milliken / May 22, 2017 / #a11y, Abilities, Ability Age, Accessibile Entertainment, accessibility, adversity, Americans with Disabilities Act, Austria, B.A. in Communications, Belgium, Bit Of A Challenge, Cerebral Palsy, Cleveland States University Magma Cum Laude, CPACC, disability, disability and inclusion, Disability Rights, Diversity, empowerment, France, Germany, hang gliding in Ridgley, Holland, inclusion, inclusive design, Italian Gazette, Italy, Marketing, Maryland, Ohio, Poetry, Pozzuoli, Pozzuoli Italy, pwd, Spain, Sun Newspapers, Sun Newspapers in Cleveland, The Able Informer, The Plain Dealer

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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Joe Devon – Co-Founder of GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day)

Interview / Neil Milliken / May 15, 2017 / accessibility, GAAD, Global, Global Accessibility, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Investment Banks, Performance Management, Programmers, Search Engine Technology, Search Engines, Telcos, Telcos and Media

Awaiting Quality Captions Joe Devon is a serial entrepreneur and computer programmer with over 30 years of development experience. Joe has worked on projects spanning Search Engine technology, Performance Management, Investment Banks, Telcos & Media. In addition to starting several companies, Joe serves/d as an advisor at several startups, leading industry conferences and nonprofits. Last but not least, Joe Co-Founded Global Accessibility Awareness

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Susanna Laurin Talks About European Accessibility Legislation

Interview / Neil Milliken / May 8, 2017

Awaiting Quality Captions Susanna Returns to AXSChat to discuss European Accessibility Standards and legislation. 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.

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Rob Laffan – Creator of TippyTalk

Interview / Neil Milliken / May 2, 2017 / adding value, Autism, Automation & Robotic systems, communicate, Engineering, non-verbal autism, non-verbal learning disorder, Rob Laffan, Sadiecom, TippyTalk

Awaiting Quality Captions Mr Laffan’s occupational background previous to creating Tippytalk would have been in management. In 2015 Rob attainted a degree in Engineering, specifically Automation & Robotic systems in 2015. Rob Laffan is a loving father of a beautiful little girl named Sadie, who just happens to be non-verbal. It was this love for

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Felipe Alonso – Founder of Nos, Why Not?, Agency Photographers with Intellectual Disabilities

Interview / Neil Milliken / April 24, 2017 / "Nos, agency, agency of photographers with intellectual disabilities, Felope Alonso, Me Workshops, Moro Foto, People with Disabilities, photographers with intellectual disabilities, photography, Why Not?"

Awaiting Quality Captions Coming from the world of business, and after 3 years of studying photography, he created a photography studio. In the year 89, he joined as a collaborator in the newspaper “El Mundo del S XXI” in Barcelona, where he became Head of Photography of the edition of Catalunya. Since 1996, he

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Ekaterina Walter – Best Selling Author, International Speaker, and Business Innovator.

Interview / Neil Milliken / April 18, 2017 / Accenture, and Social Media to Marketing Your Brand, Branderati, Ekaterina Walter, Fortune 500, Intel, SoMe Awards, Sprinklr, The Forbes 2014 World Top 40 Social Marketing Talent, The Power of Visual Storytelling: How to Use Visuals, Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Videos, Wall Street Journal bestseller

Awaiting quality captions Ekaterina Walter led strategic and marketing innovation for Fortune 500 brands such as Intel and Accenture. Branderati, the start-up she co-founded, was acquired by Sprinklr where she now serves as Global Evangelist. Ekaterina is an international speaker and author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller “Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably

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Screening out diversity & innovation?

Blog / Neil Milliken / April 13, 2017 / Down Syndrome, ethic

Screening Recent advances in medical science mean that it is now easier than ever to predict the likelihood of medical conditions companies like 23&me offer direct to consumer screening which can highlight the probability of certain genetically determined conditions. Other screening tests are also available via medical professionals that cover a range of different conditions

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

Interview / Neil Milliken / April 11, 2017 / #a11y, Ability, adapted architecture, Amsterdam Adolescent Clinic of Amsterdam university, Author, Autism, Autism Centre Dr Leo Kannerhuis, autism spectrum, autistic spectrum, Disabilities, disability, Flip Schrameijer, Global, inclusion, Kannerhuis, Netherlands Centre for Mental Health, psychology, pwd, researcher, sociologist

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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