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Claire Morgant – Worldline Mission Emploi Handicap

Interview / Neil Milliken / January 11, 2016 / access, accessibility, disability, employment, inclusion, reasonable adjustments, worldline

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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Joel Snyder – Audio Description Associates

Interview / Neil Milliken / December 21, 2015 / Accessibile Entertainment, accessibility, Accessible Theater Production, ADP, Audio Describe, Audio Description, Audio Description Associates, inclusion, pwd, Sesame Street

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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Susanna Laurin (FunkaNu)

Interview / Neil Milliken / December 8, 2015 / Ability, accessibility, disability, Funka, IAAP, ICT, inclusion

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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Debra Ruh – CEO of Ruh Global / Co-Founder AXSChat

Interview, Uncategorized / Neil Milliken / November 30, 2015 / accessibility, Disabilities, employability, G3ICT

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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Rachel Neaman – CEO of Go ON UK

Interview / Neil Milliken / November 23, 2015 / #a11y, Ability, accessibility, Digital, Digital Leaders, disability, Diversity, Go ON UK, Health, inclusion, Marketing, RSA, UK

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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Valerie & Sarah Strohl: (Sarah’s Great Day)

Interview / Neil Milliken / November 16, 2015 / #a11y, accessibility, Awareness, Best Buddies, Cooking, Down Syndrome, Food Blog, inclusion, pwd, Recipes, Sarah's Great Day, Special Olympics

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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Lourdes Arreola Prado – Engineer, CEO Linkenium

Interview / Neil Milliken / November 9, 2015 / #a11y, accessibility, disability, Diversity, Electronics, Engineer, equality, inclusion, Linkenium, Opportunities, pwd, Telecommunication

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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Paola Alcazar – Executive, Educator, and Mother of a child with a disability

Interview / Neil Milliken / November 2, 2015 / accessibilidad, accessibility, columbia, education, inclusion

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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Lainey Feingold – Disability Rights Lawyer

Interview / Neil Milliken / October 19, 2015 / #a11y, accessibility, ADA, Disability Rights, Justice, Section 508

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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Karolyn Gehrig – Artist & Founder of #HospitalGlam

Interview / Neil Milliken / October 5, 2015 / #hospitalglam, accessibility, empowerment

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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