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Join us for an online panel meetup with Protest Access!

Protest Access is a volunteer collective focused on Black Lives Matter and anti-racism related content on social media. They provide captioning, transcription, and visual descriptions as requested by online communities: d/Deaf, Hard of Hearing (HoH), Blind and Visually Impaired, and/or English language learners.

Justice and accessibility are inextricably linked. Protest Access is committed to making the largest social and cultural movement of our lifetime accessible. The volunteers are working to make it easier for everyone to engage in these discussions.

Website: https://www.protestaccess.org/
Fundraising: https://www.gofundme.com/f/protestaccess

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Schedule (In Central Time)

6:00 pm: Zoom waiting room opens for those who have RSVP-ed
6:10 pm: YouTube Live (YTL) begins. YTL is a fallback if Zoom is full or for those who prefer not to use Zoom. YTL link will be shared in the comment section below
6:20 pm: Announcements
6:30 pm: Panel / Q&A
7:30 pm: Wrap up / Closing thoughts

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About the panelists

Micah Fahar (they) is a 28-year-old non-binary person living in California. They are working towards becoming a therapist and are a co-founder of Protest Access. Some of their other passions include animals, video games, singing, and other creative arts.

Cyril Slemaker (he/they) is a 32-year-old, visually impaired trans man who lives in Boston. They are a former K-12 educator. As part of Protest Access, Cyril is one of the visual support mentors who helps create descriptive transcripts for Protest Access content.

JaxLily (they) is a 28-year-old nonbinary person from CA. They are a semi-verbal autistic AAC-user, have APD, and also struggle with visual processing. They serve on the Advisory Board of Protest Access and are also working on information-related projects such as the design of the website. Outside of PA, JaxLily is in grad school studying library and information science and has a background in Deaf Education and Linguistics.

Jordan ("Jo") Nelson Stoeger (she/her) is a 29-year-old cis woman from Minnesota. She works as a statistician at a research university in the midwest US and volunteers at Protest Access as the workflow manager. Jo loves cats, the outdoors, and books!

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This event will be live-streamed and live-captioned. Recording will be made available and posted on youtube.com/a11ychi.

Links
Zoom: Visible to those who has RSVP-ed
YouTube Live: Will be generated at time of event and posted here
Live captioning: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CDA

For those who are RSVP-ing:
RSVP as soon as possible as there is a max capacity of 100 participants with Zoom. You will be able to interact with the presenters during Q&A time. And socialize / get to know other community members before the presentation.

If you're not able to join Zoom:
We've enabled Zoom to live-stream with YouTube Live (20-sec delay), so you can watch the presentation. YTL link will be generated when Zoom goes live. We will update this page and post on social channels. We will monitor YTL chat if you have questions for the presenters, and we’ll do our best to relay to them during the discussion.

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About recording and privacy:
In Zoom, everyone's video camera and audio mic are muted by default. They can be un-muted by each individual's preference

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An Accessible Experience

If you need accommodation for this event, please contact us ASAP, so we can ensure we can accommodate you.

We’ll update this event page to note any new details and accessibility info.

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