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Gregg Beratan – Educational Consultant, Disability Rights Activists

Interview / Neil Milliken / February 29, 2016 / Ability, accessibility, Activist, Activists, Corporations, CripTheVote, disability, Disability Rights, education, inclusion, Inclusive Education, Organizations

Awaiting Quality Captions Gregg Beratan is an Educational consultant and disability rights activist. He has taught in Universities and worked in disability rights organizations in The United States, England, Poland and India. His research has focused primarily on the ways in which our understandings of disability have served to shape and limit inclusive education in […]

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Angel Giuffria – Actress, Self-proclaimed Cyborg

Interview / Neil Milliken / February 15, 2016 / Ability, actress, adversity, amputee, Angel Giuffria, cosmetic arm, Cosmetic Passive, Cyborg, Disabilities, disability, Disability Rights, diverse actors, diverse actresses, employability, empowerment, Green Lantern, Green Lantern (2011), Hunger Games, inclusion, Martin Campbell, Millenial Amputee, millennial's making change, myoelectric, myoelectric-hand, pwd, Technology, The Accountant Ben Affleck, The Accountant John Lithgow

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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Jeff King & Donna Miller – Enterprise

Interview / Neil Milliken / February 8, 2016 / #a11y, accessibility, Corporate Social Responsibility, disability, Diversity, enterprise rentacar, Getting it Right, HR, inclusion, inclusive design, pwd, Rent-A-Car, Technology

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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Marcy Sutton – Engineer, Blogger, Accessibility Advocate

Interview / Neil Milliken / February 1, 2016 / #a11y, #a11ywins, accessibility, Accessibility Wins, Angular Framework, aXe Tool, Deque, disability, Girl Develop It, standards, User Interface, web development, Women in Software, Women in Tech

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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Marco Pasqua – Accessibility Advocate and Entrepreneur

Interview / Neil Milliken / January 25, 2016 / Abilities, Adocate, adversity, Art Institue of Vancouver, Artists, Business Practice, Cerebral Palsy, disability, Entrepreneur of the Year, pwd, TEDx, Vancouver

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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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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Nurdeniz Tuncer – Law firm of Nurdeniz Tuncer

Interview / Neil Milliken / December 28, 2015 / disability, Disability Community, Disability Rights, Guide Dog Association, Human Rights, inclusion, Istanbul, pwd, Turkey, Visual Impairment

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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Nabil Eid – ICT Accessibility Consultant and Advocate

Interview / Neil Milliken / December 14, 2015 / Assistive, AT, Disabilities, disability, eLearning, ICT, inclusion, MENA, pwd, Students, Syria, Technology

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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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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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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