Awaiting Quality Captions Peter Mahoney is the senior vice president and general manager of Dragon for Nuance. He is responsible for all aspects of the Dragon speech recognition business, encompassing the healthcare, enterprise, and consumer markets. Peter joined the company in 2004 as the vice president of worldwide marketing for the speech division. Prior to […]
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Quality Captions Available Tony Coelho is a former United States congressman from California, and primary author and sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 1986, Tony was elected House Majority Whip, where he oversaw a series of Democratic victories in the House on measures ranging from the budget to cutting off funds for
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Quality Captions Available John D. Kemp is the President & CEO of The Viscardi Center, a network of non-profit organizations that provide a lifespan of services that educate, employ and empower children and adults with disabilities, based in Albertson, NY. He is widely respected for his many achievements, both in the corporate and non-profit
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Awaiting Quality Captions Kevin Ruh is the Chief Marketing Officer at Ruh Global Communications. Kevin manages all digital marketing for the global firm. Kevin has been around disabilities his entire life. His older sister, Sara Ruh was born with Down syndrome. Kevin’s experience in working with people with disabilities started at a young age. At 16, he
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Awaiting Quality Captions The Ability First Coalition is a community initiative; a group of volunteers from various sectors of business that raise awareness of disability issues in the London and area workforce. This business-to-business partnership aims to bring employers together to share best practices related to hiring and retaining people with disabilities. Jason Ménard is Content
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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 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 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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