Captions available Sarah Strohl: Sarah is 16-yrs old and a Sophomore at Zionsville Community High School. Sarah stars in her very own online lifestyle show, Sarah’s Great Day!, which can be found on YouTube. Sarah has been blessed to reap the many rewards of an inclusive education and is active in her school both socially […]
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Captions available. A former electronics engineer and telecommunications manager, Lourdes Arreola Prado is the creator and founder of Linkenium, a platform to help businesses include people with disabilities by focusing on capabilities. She was appointed in 2013 as one of the 18 worldwide finalists by the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards. Lourdes was born in 1968 in
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Captions available. Please consider that Ricardo Garcia is translating Paula from Spanish to English. Paola Alcázar is a journalist, Ph.D. in psychology, from the Caribbean region of Colombia.10 years ago, when her son Samuel was born with visual disability, she started to study, to understand and to work for people, specially children, with some
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Captions available. Shane Moore worked 12 years as a decorated police officer and a record holding Triple-A semi-pro football player. In 2004, he was stabbed in the line of duty. To cope with sleep anxiety brought on by that event, he penned The Plea of Apollisian. The book sold so well it led to an
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This video is captioned Lainey Feingold is a disability rights lawyer from Berkeley, California who works with the blind community on technology and information access issues. She is nationally recognized for negotiating landmark accessibility agreements and for pioneering the collaborative dispute resolution method known as Structured Negotiation. Using this method, and without filing a single
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Captions available Magnus Hedemark is an autistic autodidactic polymath. He makes his living mainly as a software engineer, but is involved in many other pursuits including fine art photography, writing, and public speaking. Magnus is a regular participant on #AXSchat, usually clandestinely smoking a pipe of tobacco from some high-altitude nest in Durham, North Carolina. Follow
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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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Captions available Andrew Imparato has served as executive director of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) since September, 2013. As a disability rights lawyer and policy professional with more than two decades of experience in government and advocacy roles, Imparato has worked with bipartisan policymakers to advance disability policy at the national level
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Captions available Michael Morris is the Director of National Disability Institute (NDI). He has over 30 years of experience in and outside of government pioneering new strategies to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Michael serves as an advisor and technical expert to multiple federal agencies on policy and systems relationships at federal, state,
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Captions available Ricardo has worked in the disability, ICT accessibility and inclusion fields since 2004, when he joined the ONCE Foundation for Latin America as Technical Manager to conduct the EU-funded (EuropeAid) @LIS program Red-SOCIAL, a €3M, 15-stakeholder, 4-year project aimed at developing and implementing an accessible ICT infrastructure for blind and visually impaired
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