Today was Global Accessibility Awareness Day. I had a great chat with Juan Olarte about his work to make digital information (websites and documents) more accessible as well as what National Park Accessibility means to him. Near the end he highlights an event he hosted to mark this important day including a keynote talk from the co-founder of GAAD, Jennison Asuncion.

Tonya and I discuss how cases are increasing rapidly and what the province needs to do. Yesterday evening (when we recorded this) the number of new cases was just over 2400 - today it is just over 3100. 

Vicki shared her journey through her undergraduate and graduate studies, applying for jobs in and outside academia and how to give a good job talk. In particular, she gave some great advice on how to deal with imposter syndrome.

You can find her contact info here: https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/vicki-komisar/

Here is the products she worked on during her PhD are here: https://hartmobility.com/products/easy-range-600/ and https://hartmobility.com/products/easy-range-500/

Here is a video that demonstrates the impact one of her products is having on end users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwq4EilsXEY

This is a quick introduction to what this podcast is about.

Ahmed took the time to share advice for deciding what to do after school for undergrad and graduate students. He also describes his plans for the next phase in his life as the Founder of Hellamaid.

The Reddit article that helped Ahmed launch his business: www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/5lfy6n/4_years_ago_i_wrote_a_case_study_on_reddit_on_my

Ahmed's website with pictures and videos including his undergrad project, masters project and DEEP experience: ahmedmezil.com/portfolio

The psychology tool that helped him with important decisions (Ahmed is ENFJ): www.16personalities.com/personality-types

This was recorded over a week ago. Tonya and I talk about how worried we should be about a fourth wave.

Tonya and I discuss the record breaking COVID-19 case numbers happening now in the third wave.

Tonya and I both went back and listened to our podcast from 1 year ago (Friday March 13, 2020) and reflected on it.

Case numbers are going down but variant numbers are creeping up.

This episode was actually recorded a few months ago on November 29th when case counts were going up.