Annie Jean-Baptiste: Advocating for Product Inclusion Through Every Development Phase
Annie Jean-Baptiste, head of product inclusion at Google, utilizes her platform to advocate for more equity in product development across industries.
The Ripple Effect of Like-Minded Partnerships
By partnering with organizations such as BIT and through Project Soar, we have the honor of seeing the ripple effect that passion for a community and cause can have.
Lainey Feingold: Defending Civil Rights Through Collaboration
Lainey Feingold is a civil rights lawyer who specializes in making the digital world more accessible through Structured Negotiation. She has negotiated agreements with Major League Baseball, Walmart, Bank of America, and others.
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Michael Berhane: Helping People of Color in Tech to Engage, Create & Get Hired
How an interview project evolved into an online information hub, recruiting platform, and podcast to improve diversity in the technology industry.
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Disability Advocacy
Alice Wong: Amplifying the Voices of Disabled People and Advocating for Visibility
Disabled activist, consultant, and media maker Alice Wong is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project and editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century.
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Meryl Evans Is Leading the Charge to Caption the Internet
When it comes to providing descriptions of visual content, quality is key, says one of the leading proponents of improved captioning.
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Toby Hervey: Blending Human Resources & Telehealth to Help Improve Workplace Culture
How a conversation with a good friend led Toby Hervey to establish Bravely, a mobile app helping people address workplace wellness issues.
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Jennison Asuncion: Promoting Digital Inclusion Through Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
Digital accessibility evangelist Jennison Asuncion promotes inclusive design and build of digital products and technology through his acclaimed initiatives, including Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
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Thomas Logan: Advocating for Accessibility in Virtual/Augmented Reality
Thomas Logan provides best practices for virtual reality developers to make the programs more accessible for people with disabilities.
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Allison Esposito Medina: Supporting Women in Tech
Allison Esposito Medina is the founder and CEO of Tech Ladies, a worldwide community that connects 100,000 members through an online group, a free job board, and learning opportunities.
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Lauren Stiller Rikleen: An Advocate for Safe Work Environments
Lauren Stiller Rikleen addresses mistreatments in the workplace and recommends solutions.
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How Safiya Umoja Noble Exposes Biases in Tech Platforms
Professor, author, and social scientist Safiya Umoja Noble uncovers algorithmic biases and explores how to remove them so as to create more ethical search platforms.
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Christopher Patnoe: Ensuring All Google Products & Services Are Accessible & Inclusive
As Google’s head of Accessibility Programs and Disability Inclusion, Christopher Patnoe is passionate about building technology products for people with disabilities, while also maintaining an inclusive hiring process and diverse workforce.
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Eric Eggert: An Accessibility Expert Inspiring Others
Eric Eggert is a web accessibility expert who eagerly shares his knowledge through his professional work, website, lectures, and social media channels to inspire others to learn more about the subject.
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Disability Advocacy
Shani Dhanda Combats Barriers on Multiple Fronts to Promote Inclusion Across Intersectionalities
After facing barriers to inclusion, Shani Dhanda set her sights on supporting the disabled, Asian, and female communities and all their intersectionalities.
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Milena Berry Gives Women the Power to Fly
Drawing from her own experiences, Berry hopes to help empower women and bring an end to gender discrimination in the workplace.
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Be My Eyes
Will Butler of Be My Eyes Shares His Journey to Personal Acceptance
Be My Eyes VP of Community Will Butler talks inspiration, hope, and the power of communal healing via his free, crowd-sourced app that gives sight to the blind.
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Sloop Brewing’s Mariquita Reese Is Taking On Craft Beer’s Diversity Problem
Mariquita Reese spearheaded Sloop’s Open Waters Internship Program, a D&I internship seeking to dismantle the barriers to entry that prevent women, POC, LGBTQ+ folks, and other marginalized communities from joining the brewing industry.
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How Marcy Sutton Is Making Accessibility A Fundamental Piece of the Web Development Puzzle
As a web developer for more than a decade, Marcy Sutton has made a name for herself by advocating for and teaching other programmers how to code with accessibility in mind.
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Becky Kekula: Helping Organizations Achieve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Becky Kekula is passionate about changing the way society views persons with disabilities by helping corporations understand and embrace the power of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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Dave Rupert: Making A11Y Cool, Friendly, and Better for Everyone
In his various projects, Dave Rupert, creator of the A11Y Project, has pushed to make accessibility a subject more web developers can understand and apply with ease.
