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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Captions Available Andrea Kennedy is the co-founder of Destek Accessibility Solutions and has been working within the field of accessibility for over 15 years, after having an accident which left her with a disability. You can follow Destek on Twitter Having discovered a passion for disability access technology Andrea co-developed for the Shaw Trust
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Captions Available Rebecca Cokley is the Executive Director of the National Council on Disability, an independent agency charged with advising Congress and the White House on issues of national disability public policy. She joined NCD in 2013 after serving 4 years in the Obama Administration. Most recently, she was the Special Assistant to the
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Captions Available Yet Christine Murphy Peck is the CEO of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals IAAP Website. Her Areas of Expertise are: Nonprofit management; Certification Management; Education Strategy Development; Facilitation; Strategic Planning; and eLearning The accessibility field is rapidly evolving yet there has been no coordinated pursuit of accessibility as a formal profession. Everyone is
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