My life outside the office.
Autism Acceptance
My brother Charles and sister Elizabeth are both Autistic. I am heavily involved in my siblings' entrepreneurial pursuits, from building my brother's social enterprise website, Love Your Neighbor Books, to managing the social media and website for my sister's nonprofit, Communication 4 ALL, ensuring that all nonspeakers with Autism and other conditions worldwide have access to robust, meaningful communication tools and training.
In my career, I've educates dozens of co-workers at multiple positions about the importance of web accessibility and how to build it into an organization's design, development, and testing practices. I've led initiatives to remediate thousands of accessibility issues. I will continue to advocate for accessibility in all aspects of society, especially in technology, in my current and future roles.
In my career, I've educates dozens of co-workers at multiple positions about the importance of web accessibility and how to build it into an organization's design, development, and testing practices. I've led initiatives to remediate thousands of accessibility issues. I will continue to advocate for accessibility in all aspects of society, especially in technology, in my current and future roles.
Travel
From September through November 2019, I took a career break to travel throughout Southeast Asia. After volunteering at elephant sanctuaries and interviewing sex worker communities in Thailand, learning about and donating to organizations that are clearing bombs leftover from the Vietnam War in Laos, visiting Angkor Wat and the killing fields in Cambodia, witnessing bomb shelters, massacre sites, and war remembrance museums in Vietnam, and cleaning up plastic pollution from beaches, I have learned invaluable lessons about how politics has impacted this area of the world. I returned feeling refreshed, motivated, and ready to improve the world in many significant ways, with both technology and activism.
Activism
My dream career involves using technology to help humanity and Planet Earth. In my free time, I regularly advocate for ways to make the world better, by organizing and attending rallies and marches, hosting and participating in meetings to build community, and making music and art to inspire others to be politically active in creative ways. We have an extremely limited time to save our planet from the climate and ecological emergency that we are in, including all the intersecting issues that this crisis creates and is rooted in, and ultimately create the world we need. This is our world, so let's make one that works for all of us.