[Iabs-talk] FW: AccessComputing Capacity Building Institute

[Deborah Kent Stein]

This sounds like a great opportunity! Take a look, and pass it on to anyone who might be interested. 

From: Richard Ladner <ladner at cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:15:59 -0700
Subject: AccessComputing Capacity Building Institute
To: "Ameenah A. Ghoston" <ameenahg at gmail.com>
Cc: Brianna Blaser <blaser at uw.edu>

Please join us for our AccessComputing <http://uw.edu/accesscomputing> Capacity Building Institute (CBI): *Building Capacity in Industry:
Recruiting and Retaining Employees with Disabilities*

The CBI will be held June 16-17, 2016 in Seattle, WA and will bring together industry representatives, disability experts, and computing students and professionals with disabilities.

Attendees will share their expertise and work together to create resources.
We will focus on three themes during the meeting:

   - Recruiting employees and interns with disabilities
   - Supporting employees and interns with disabilities
   - How employees and interns with disabilities can contribute to an
   accessible culture

Hotel, food, and conference materials will be covered by AccessComputing.
Attendees can request funding for travel.  AccessComputing is an National Science Foundation-funded project that works to increase the participation of people with disabilities in computing and careers in engineering.

Teams representing multiple stakeholders from a company, including hiring managers, accessibility professionals, disability experts, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.  Apply now at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/blaser/298604.

If you know others who would be interested in this topic, please share this email with them.

I hope many of you can attend.   Questions can be sent to me or Brianna
Blaser who is cc'd.

Richard Ladner
PI AccessComputing