Author name: Kasia Wakarecy

AXSChat Podcast with Isaac Zablocki and Lawrence Carter-Long

Isaac Zablocki is a co-founder and CEO at ReelAbilities. He is also the Director of film programs at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan. He attended film school at Columbia University and went on to work at Miramax films. Previously, he produced and directed feature films and developed film educational programs for the Board of Education. […]

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AXSChat Podcast with Dan Watt

A dance class can be a mirror or a wall, and too many families know what it feels like to be shut out. We sit down with filmmaker and former dancer Dan Watt to unpack how his Emmy-winning documentary Everybody Dance came to life, why he searched for months to find the right inclusive ballet

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AXSChat Podcast with Jeff Szmanda

Jeff is an inventor, or co-inventor, on seven issued patents that utilize ergonomic design and universal design. These inventions advance inclusion opportunities for people with physical limitations who use computer keyboards and hearing aids. For their development of the Comfort Keyboard System, Jeff, along with his brother Bill, received the first place award in the

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AXSChat Podcast with Rylin Rodgers

Rylin Rodgers serves on Microsoft’s Accessibility Team as a Disability Policy Director. She strives to impact disability policy in the areas of technology, workforce and fundamental right. Rylin’s work is influenced by her lived experiences with disability. She is dyslexic and has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and the mother of two young adults with physical disabilities and medical

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