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Billion Strong: A Global Identity and Empowerment Nonprofit

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Billion Strong: A Global Identity and Empowerment Nonprofit

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According to the World Health Organization, there are 1.3B people with disabilities in the world. Also, many efforts are being made to include persons with disabilities including efforts like The Valuable 500. Five hundred multinational corporations at the CEO level are partnering with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Dr. Caroline Casey of The Valuable 500 to focus on disability inclusion and accessibility.

Wonderful. Still, we have a Global "supply versus demand" issue. The corporations are creating demand but if the community is not willing to self-identify, empower ourselves and our fellow peers with disabilities, we will continue to have a supply problem.

Bottom line: If the community of persons with disabilities really came together to support each other, vendors supporting us, corporations hiring and including us, governments legislating for and sometimes against us, and more ... we could change the direction of our lives and the other 1.3B souls living with disabilities/

In this conversation, we'll discuss:

✅ What Billion Strong plans to do
✅ Why these efforts support accessibility and inclusion
✅ Why join the Billion Strong movement

And there will be time for your questions.

PRESENTER BIO
Debra is the CEO of Ruh Global IMPACT, working with multinational corporations to help them with global disability inclusion strategies, accessibility strategies, digital marketing, and branding. Debra is also the co-founder and chairperson of Billion Strong. Billion Strong is a global nonprofit focused on identity and empowerment of persons with disabilities.

Debra Ruh is a Global Disability Inclusion Strategist, Market Influencer, internationally recognized keynote speaker, published author, branding expert, successful entrepreneur, and exceptional mother.

ACCESSIBILITY
The presentation will have Captions [CC] and ASL interpreters.

LIVESTREAM
Provided by Internet Society Accessibility SIG.

https://youtu.be/boik9yH1gwM

ACCREDITATION
All A11yNYC meetups are pre-approved for IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC).

SPONSORS
Thanks to Adobe, Equal Entry, and Fable for sponsoring.

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