About this Event
National Thought Leaders - Quarterly Event. Hear from Youth Leaders!
This workshop will discuss strategies to make workplaces and workforce transition programs inclusive for youth with disabilities. These include strategies to ensure that outreach content on social media, physical workspaces, and documents given to youth employees are accessible for all that can be implemented without any programming experience. Additional strategies will cover actions that supervisors and coworkers can take to make youth employees with disabilities feel included. Overall, this workshop aims to give youth workforce specialists and employers tips on making sure youth employees with disabilities can succeed and feel included in their workplaces.
Bio:
Hello! My name is Zandy Wong and I am passionate about creating a world where accessibility is universal and having a disability is celebrated through my research and advocacy. My research has focused on improving the inequitable digital public health response to COVID-19 and evaluating the accessibility of U.S. hospital websites. I have also shared my story of growing up with hearing loss on the TEDx stage, with podcasts, and on industry panels to encourage acceptance of those with disabilities. In the community, I founded the NextGen Accessibility Initiative where she partners with Gen Z organizations to make their digital content fully accessible for disabled youth. My work to improve digital accessibility within the NextGen Accessibility Initiative has reached over 200,000 youth in 119 countries. I also advised the U.S. Department of Labor and state policymakers on creating policies to help disabled youth transition into higher education and workplace environments as a member of the CAPE-Youth Working Group (Center for State Governments). My story and advocacy efforts have been featured in international news coverage from Teen Vogue and the Washington Post. I have been named a 2024 Rhodes Scholar and named to Her Campus/ELF Beauty’s 22 under 22 ELFing Amazing List in recognition of my disability advocacy and research
Event Venue
Online
USD 0.00
