Typically a cliche saying, Disability Rights Advocate Shira Strongin completely embodies the phrase “one in a million”. A truly one in a million combination of gene mutations led to an avalanche of symptoms and diagnoses for Shira, whose conditions predominantly onset directly before her 10th birthday. Where many would balk at this statistical improbability, Shira has turned it into a motivator and a positive force in her life.
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Almost 6 months ago in September, I was a recipient of a scholarship to attend the CMX Summit, the world's largest gathering of the community industry. One of the speakers at the Summit, Erica Kuhl, was the VP of Community at Salesforce and she spoke about how the community had rallied behind Trailhead, a new approach to learning Salesforce online.
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Wandering around the markets of Israel, adventurer Tony Giles takes it all in. The smells of the surrounding food booths, the sounds of the people chattering about, and the feeling of individuals brushing past him. Somehow, one of those passersby manages to bump into him just hard enough to send him flying into a nearby store. In the blink of an eye, Giles finds himself being strangled by scarves in his new surroundings. Swatting at them, he eventually finds his way out, realizing that he was almost strangled — by scarves.
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Tapping at the keyboard day after day, writer Patrick Călinescu has laid out his story of growing up around constant illness. Living with a disability himself, along with parents with cancer diagnoses, Călinescu’s life has always been full of chaos.
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A lot of the time, when people with disabilities are presented at conferences or forums, there is a great deal of tokenism complemented with physical inaccessibility. This was not my experience at Tech Inclusion 2017.
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We are proud to be a community partner of Tech Inclusion San Francisco from October 17-19, focusing on solutions to diversity and inclusion in technology.
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Diversability today announced its participation in National Disability Employment Awareness Month, an annual awareness campaign that takes place each October.
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“Playing it by ear” is Graham Norwood’s specialty as he takes on the traditional music industry, with a twist: Norwood is legally blind.
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