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DASH Work Group Members

DASH Co-Chairs:

  • Andrew Kirkpatrick, Senior Fellow, G3ict, USA
  • Marc Workman, CEO, World Blind Union (WBU), Canada

DASH Members:

  • Shadi Abou-Zhara, Principal Accessibility Standards and Policy Manager, Amazon, Austria
  • Monica Ackermann, Board Member, G3ict, Canada
  • Tomer Aharoni, Co-Founder, Nagish, Israel
  • Lisette Arocha, Senior Manager, Products and Technology, PwC, USA
  • Matt Ater, Vice President, Vispero, USA
  • Talin Avades, Manager of the Global Action on Disability (GLAD) Network Secretariat, IDA - International Disability Alliance, USA
  • David Banes, Director, Access and Inclusion Services, UK
  • Lidia Best, President, EFHOH - European Federation of Hard of Hearing, UK
  • Jess Blijkers, International Director for Programs and Advocacy, Light for the World, Belgium
  • Fernando Botelho, Program Specialist - Assistive Technology, UNICEF, Brazil
  • Trevor Carroll, Chairperson Elect, DPI - Disabled People's International, Australia
  • Francesca Cesa Bianchi, VP, Institutional Relations, G3ict, USA
  • Henrietta Davis-Wray, Global Acting Chair, DPI - Disabled People's International, Jamaica
  • Michael Fembek, Executive Director, Zero Project, Austria
  • Mary Fernandez, Lead: Office of Disability and Neuro-Inclusion, CISCO, USA
  • Robert Gaunt, President, CNIB - Canadian National Institute of the Blind, Canada
  • Martin Gould, Director of Research, G3ict, USA
  • Shawn Henry, Accessibility Specialist, W3C, USA
  • Isabel Hodge, Executive Director, USICD - U.S. International Council on Disability, USA
  • Shilpi Kapoor, CEO and Founder, BarrierBreak, India
  • Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg, Advisor, Media Development, Pluralism and Diversity, UNESCO, France
  • Masahito Kawamori, Rapporteur of Q28 “Multimedia Framework for e-Health Applications” in Study Group 16 ITU, Japan
  • Julie Lane, Social Impact Operations Executive, CISCO, USA
  • Susanna Laurin, Chair, e-Accessibility Joint Working Group ETSI/CEN/CENELEC, Sweden
  • Axel Leblois, President and CEO, G3ict, USA
  • Christopher Lee, VP and Managing Director, G3ict, USA
  • Elizabeth Lockwood, CBM Global Representative to the United Nations, CBM Global Disability Inclusion and World Federation of the Deaf, USA
  • Mohammed Loutfy, Director, Capacity Building and Advocacy, G3ict, USA (DASH Secretariat)
  • Susan Mazrui, Director, Global Public Policy, AT&T Services, Inc., USA
  • Irene Mbari-Kirika, CEO and Founder, InAble, Kenya
  • Charlotte McClain Nhlapo, Global Disability Advisor, World Bank, USA
  • Makiko Miyazaki, Project Coordinator, The Nippon Foundation, Japan
  • Christopher Patnoe, Head of Accessibility and Disability Inclusion, EMEA Google, UK
  • Sachin Dev Pavithran, Executive Director, U.S. Access Board, USA
  • Sonali Rai, Broadcast Manager (Media and Culture Accessibility) RNIB, UK
  • Gautam Rao, Global Head Accessibility, EY, USA
  • Philip Rizcallah, CEO, Accessibility Standards Canada, Canada
  • Rylin Rodgers, Disability Policy Advisor, Microsoft, USA
  • Susan Scott-Parker, Founder, BDI - Business Disability International, UK
  • Mike Shebanek, Head of Accessibility, Meta Platforms, USA
  • Tim Springer, CEO, Level Access, USA
  • Karen Strauss, Former FCC lead for 21st Century CVAA, National Disability Advocate and Historian, USA
  • James Thurston, Accessible Digital Transformations Lead, Atos, USA
  • Johnathan Thurston, Director of Digital Accessibility, Walmart, USA
  • Jutta Treviranus, Professor, OCAD University, Canada
  • Steve Tyler, Director for Assistive Technologies, Leonard Cheshire, UK
  • Gregg Vanderheiden, Founder and Director Emeritus, Trace R&D Center, UMD, USA
  • Jose Maria Viera, Executive Director, IDA - International Disability Alliance, Canada
  • Lionel Wolberger, COO, Level Access, USA
  • Hillary Wool, Principal, BCG, USA