Captions Available 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. She is a frequent international lecturer and debater and she serves on a number of program […]
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Captions Available Neil & Antonio interview AXSChat Co-Founder Debra about her upcoming book: “Uncovering Hidden Human Capital: How Leading Corporations Leverage Multiple Abilities in Their Workforce” The Book Will be published by G3ict inLate December 2015 or January 2016. Theme: Employment and Retention of Persons with Disabilities from the global employer’s perspective. Description: People
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Captions available. Rachel is Chief Executive of Go ON UK, the cross-sector digital skills charity that works to ensure all individuals, small businesses and charities in the UK have the basic digital skills they need to prosper in an increasingly digital world. She is also Chair of the Digital Leaders programme (http://digitalleaders.co.uk/), a network
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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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