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Kathy Martinez is an internationally recognized disability rights leader and the President/CEO of Disability Rights Advocates (DRA).

Martinez speaks and publishes on a wide array of topics related to disability employment, including the emergence of disability as an essential component of workplace diversity and inclusion and the importance of expectation in ensuring youth with disabilities grow up with an assumption of work—a topic on which Martinez, who herself was born blind, offers compelling and personal perspective.

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Often referred to as the ‘David Suzuki of design,’ David Berman’s career has been influenced by many different industries – but design has always remained at the center of it all. 

David has over 30 years of experience in design and communications and has worked extensively in the adaptation of content for electronic distribution, including accessible web and software interface development.

David regularly teaches WCAG accessibility as part of his professional development workshops. His work includes award-winning projects for the City of Ottawa, the Ontario government, and Canada's federal government. David has provided consultancy, training, and testing to IBM, the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services, AODA office, and the Norwegian Design Council on Accessibility Issues. 

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Miranda Hoffner has been working for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for the past seven years as an accessibility expert, creating sustainable systems to ensure accessibility is infused at all levels of the organization, for staff, guests, and artists.

Miranda has reshaped Lincoln Center's commitment to inclusion through policy, innovative programming, and internal consensus building. She also served on the inaugural Diversity Equity and Inclusion Council.

In addition, Miranda has created and managed two graduate fellowships and programs, coaching future leaders in accessibility.

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Belén always felt passionate about video games and learning languages. She also knew she wanted to do something in the gaming industry.

She entered the language industry as soon as she graduated from college and started to work in a game localization company as a linguist and project manager. But that wasn't enough, so she decided to obtain an MA in Audiovisual Translation. But that chapter of her life came to an end when she decided to quit to pursue a new and more motivating challenge: get a Ph.D. in multimedia accessibility.

So she moved from Madrid to Barcelona and developed her thesis on subtitling in virtual reality that she obtained with distinctions. This experience was life-changing, and she could finally understand the importance of accessibility and found a new motivation in life: fight to make fun accessible for everybody. Games were so important for her development as a human being, and why shouldn't games be accessible for everybody?

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Emily Yates is an Accessibility Consultant and Journalist living in the U.K. She currently works as an Inclusive Design Associate at CCD Design & Ergonomics.

Emily frequently presents and writes on disability, having fronted several documentaries for BBC Three and written for the Guardian, the Independent and Telegraph Travel. She authored the Lonely Planet Guide to Accessible Rio de Janeiro, endorsed by the International Paralympic Committee and available to download by athletes, tourists, and locals alike ahead of the 2016 Games.

A wheelchair user herself, Emily is also a disability awareness trainer for Enhance the UK and manages their Undressing Disability campaign, championing the right for disabled people to have access to sexual expression. She recently delivered a TEDx talk on this issue and is currently studying for a PhD in Women's Studies at the University of York.

​If you'd like to collaborate on a project, hire her as a speaker or just have a chat, here's how to get in touch with Emily:

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Thomas Tobin is an author, speaker, and consultant on all facets of quality for technology in higher education: Universal Design for Learning (UDL), evaluating online teaching, copyright, academic integrity, and non-faculty career paths.

Visit Thomas' website, purchase books, and get speaker info: http://thomasjtobin.com

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Derek Mei is a Senior UX/UI Designer at 3Play Media who is passionate about understanding interactions between people and the technologies we use.

He has an eye for aesthetics and a knack for the functional, and wants to fuse together his knowledge of both code and design to create digital products that excite users and simplify their interactions with digital products.

In addition, he wants to help others understand the power of design, whether it be writing about his experiences on Medium, or using his skillset to give back to less-privileged people and communities.

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