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How designing for disability creates innovations that benefit everyone, drive market advantage, and spark breakthrough products.

Key deadlines, critical requirements, and practical steps for compliance with the world's most comprehensive AI regulation.

Practical design patterns that make AI products work for everyone—from multimodal interaction to cognitive accessibility.

How AI governance is evolving worldwide, where we're converging, and how to prepare your organization for the regulatory landscape ahead.

Why rest is essential for sustainable leadership, better decisions, and an organization's governance capacity.

Inclusive product design isn't an afterthought or a compliance checklist. It's a core competency that drives better outcomes for all users while expanding your market reach.

Ethical AI isn't a constraint on innovation. It's a foundation for sustainable, trustworthy systems that create long-term value for organizations and the communities they serve.

Bias in AI systems causes real harm to real people. Understanding how bias enters your systems and building detection infrastructure to catch it is essential for responsible AI deployment.

AI systems are uncertain. Good interface design surfaces that uncertainty honestly, helping users make better decisions while maintaining trust.

When leaders are burned out, AI governance suffers. Exhausted decision-makers make poor judgment calls, miss critical risks, and build dysfunctional teams. The path to better AI governance starts with rest.

The EU AI Act is now in force. Organizations operating in or serving European markets need practical compliance strategies. Here's what you need to do right now.

AI assistants are powerful tools. They're also frequently inaccessible. If your assistant only works through text or voice, you're excluding people who are deaf, hard of hearing, visually impaired, or have other disabilities.

Accessibility litigation is rising. Demand letters cost money and time. Getting hit by a lawsuit you could have prevented is expensive. Here's what's happening, what's at stake, and how to get ahead of it.

The disability market is massive, growing, and largely underserved. Organizations that shift from viewing disability as compliance to seeing it as market opportunity will win the next decade.

A strategic framework for navigating challenging destinations safely, managing health equity barriers, and staying professionally effective while living with chronic conditions and disabilities.

AI tools are breaking down travel barriers for disabled people—but they're also creating new risks. Here's what works, what's failing, and where the technology is heading.

Accessibility requirements vary dramatically by region. Understanding which standards apply where—and how to advocate when local infrastructure falls short—is essential for planning risk travel globally.

A $300 billion market opportunity. Loyal customers. Competitive advantage. Why hospitality and tourism companies should invest in accessibility now.

I am passionate about my work as a Product Inclusion Specialist, a profession where I build products that work for everybody, regardless of ability, gender, resources, culture, race, or class.

Recently, CBS's 60-minutes aired a segment on racial bias in facial recognition technology, referring to a December 2019 NIST study as a 'landmark study' while failing to mention the groundbreaking research on which it was based.

A personal reflection on navigating invisibility and hypervisibility as a Black woman in tech, and the journey toward reclaiming full selfhood.

Recognizing Juneteenth as a National Holiday is not a solution to ending racism. It's a bandaid, a temporary fix to a wound at which we have given only a cursory triage.

Black people are plagued by Imposter Syndrome, questioning their own competency and self worth; 'Have I gained entry, or simply been allowed entry?'

'Race-norming'—also called 'race correction,' 'ethnic adjustment,' and 'race adjustment'—refers to the adjustment of medical test results or medical risk assessment algorithms based on a patient's race.

2015 brought us #OscarsSoWhite shedding light on the absence of BIPOC voices and representation in the Academy Awards. 2018 brought us another hashtag: #WellnessSoWhite.

It has taken us some time to find the words to express our deep empathy, sympathy, and worry for Asian communities across the US.

[Helen] Pluckrose believes there is an objective truth! She believes in one truth that is rooted in Western, White/European ideologies of a particular scientific method which denounces any other forms of truth.

At Incluu, LLC, we create brave spaces for life. Our work in the diversity, equity, and inclusion space at the intersection of human, tech, and civil rights has continued to expose the pitfalls organizations face.

International Women's Day is a day in which many celebrate the progress we're making towards equal pay and fair wages between men and women.

One of the biggest misconceptions about tech is aptly summarized: '[Tech is] afforded a supremacy that humans feel comfortable not questioning. And yet, technology isn't just a neutral tool.'

At first, you might be thinking, what does design have to do with liberation? You might feel a tinge of discomfort come over you, and a sigh of, 'Is nothing safe from wokeness?'

'Digital blackface' is used to describe various types of minstrel performance that become available in cyberspace. Blackface minstrelsy is a theatrical tradition dating back to the early 19th century.

In as many years, 3 Black men have had their lives upended by wrongful arrests. Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software.

When I present on panels about equitable and inclusive design, there are two areas I emphasize: these are the areas where we, as humans have the greatest opportunity to bring about transformative change.

I recently sat down with a group to discuss the pros and cons of emerging technologies from my perspective as both anthropologist and ethical technologist; specifically, smart lock systems.