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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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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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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Awaiting Quality Captions Marco Pasqua was born 3 months premature and would later be diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Despite this setback, he has always focused on his abilities, rather than his disability. He first started speaking in front of large audiences at the age of 10; it was then that he realized the impact that words can
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Captions Available Amihai Miron is the co-founder and CEO of User1st, a cloud-based accessibility compliance system. Miron was born in 1973 in Herzliya, Israel, to Zvi Miron, a Holocaust survivor and an executive civilian in the Israeli Defense Forces, and Ella Miron, an international artist. In 1995, Miron began working with disabled school children from
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Captions Available Claire Currently works in HR, for Worldline, an Atos subsidiary company specialising in payments & transactional services. Based in Lille France Claire manages the Worldline “Mission Emploi Handicap” a program to develop employment of disabled people in France. Claire previously worked for 7 years as a recruiter in IT companies. She started learning about difficulties
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Captions Available Known as ‘Little Kiran’, Kenyan-born Kiran Shah is the world’s shortest stunt man currently working. He has performed stunts for numerous blockbusters including The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Titanic, Braveheart, Indiana Jones and Superman I & II. His acting career has been almost as prolific, including roles in The Hobbit, The Lion,
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Captions Available Having graduated from Istanbul university law faculty in 2001, Nurdeniz opened her own law office focusing on business and contract law. Now, she is turning her attention to disability rights in Turkey and the Guide Dog Association is part of this effort. As the president of the Association, she is working to advance
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Captions Available Dr. Joel Snyder is known internationally as one of the world’s first “audio describers,” a pioneer in the field of audio Description, making theater events, museum exhibitions, and media accessible to people who are blind or are visión-impaired. Since 1981, he has introduced audio description techniques in over 40 states and 45
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Captions Available We apologize for the poor quality of the Audio but are proud to share Nabil’s work. Nabil Eid has a successful record of accomplishment and experience in (ICT) and Assistive Technology (AT) for Persons with Disabilities. Over 20 years of research experience in various programs involving user centered experiments and focusing especially on
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