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We're excited to partner with Tech Inclusion New York for the third year in a row, the annual convening of the tech industry to focus on solutions to diversity and inclusion! This year’s theme, “Voices of Innovation,” features diverse, underrepresented voices building the innovative technologies and cultures of our future. It’s a full day of keynotes, panel discussions, solo talks and an interactive session focusing on inclusive innovation across the tech ecosystem. The day closes with a Happy Hour in the evening to network, debrief and unwind.

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I've always loved collective nouns. I’ve made it my business to amass them, like rings on my fingers, ever since I was a little girl — my misbelief of painters, my murder of crows. They’re strong, creative, beautiful words of description — a credit to language and to the things they describe. And yet, we are only “a gaggle of women”, somehow squawking, squealing still. Doing it together, yes, but robbed of the poetry afforded to other animals in their collective.

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We’re thrilled to be partnering with the United State of Women Summit to bring together 5,000 women, girls, and allies who are committed to finding solutions to gender inequity at the #USOW2018, with speakers such as Michelle Obama (Former First Lady of the United States), Tarana Burke (Founder of the 'me too.' Movement), Jane Fonda (Actor and Activist), and Dara Baldwin (Senior Public Policy Analyst, National Disability Rights Network).

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I remember my supervisor telling me one day, "The thing is, people don’t have awareness of their own mortality, but you do". It struck me, and I haven’t stopped thinking about this ever since.

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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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Breathe is an incredibly beautiful and uplifting film that made me rethink the power of love—particularly in my own life as it relates to my struggle with how others perceive my disability.

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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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