Tech Disability Project elevates people with disabilities in the tech industry through community and representation.
For National Disability Employment Awareness Month each October, Tech Disability Project runs an industrywide campaign to increase representation of tech founders and employees with disabilities. Through hosting community events and publishing first person narratives, TDP aims to increase the visibility of our community and broaden access within the industry.
Image Description: A black and white headshot of Natasha, who has red shoulder length hair and is wearing a blazer and tortoise shell glasses.
Natasha Mooney Walton, Founder of Tech Disability Project
Natasha is the VP of Product at Mavrck, an enterprise influencer marketing platform. After her previous startup was acquired by Adobe, Natasha helped create Adobe’s disability employee resource group, AccessAdobe.
In 2018, she founded Tech Disability Project to create space and community for tech professionals with disabilities. Natasha speaks and writes about disability inclusion and representation.
Past Campaigns
Image Description: Disability United. Community Mixer: 10/19. Survey: 10/1-12-31.
2020: Disability United - Community Mixer & Survey
For our 2020 campaign, Tech Disability Project launched two initiatives to unite the tech professionals with disabilities: a Community Mixer and a Survey.
Our first virtual community mixer featured 13 facilitated, small group discussions around topics related to disability inclusion. Thanks to Adobe and Mixpanel for partnering with us to make our Community Mixer possible and accessible.
We’ve also hosted a survey to better understand our members’ experiences - stay tuned for more information about the results. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Image Description: Four panelists, a moderator present in front of attendees at Disability Connect, along with an ASL interpreter .
2019: Disability Connect - ERG Panel and Mixer
In honor of National Disability Employment Month, Tech Disability Project and Adobe hosted the tech disability community for an evening of learning and connecting. The event featured a panel of disability ERG leaders from leading tech companies as well as time for connecting.
Panelists
Govind Balakrishnan, VP Creative Cloud Product & Services and AccessAdobe Executive Sponsor (Adobe)
Iris McLeary, Software Engineer and Mixability Lead (Mixpanel)
Srin Madipalli, Product Manager and Able@ Lead (Airbnb)
Sunday Parker, Accessibility Outreach Program Manager and Global President of Abilityforce (Salesforce)
Natasha Mooney Walton, Founder of Tech Disability Project, Moderator
Press Coverage: Tech disability community meets for conversation and connection
Image Description: Eight headshots of Tech Disability Project contributors.
2018: Tech Disability Project Medium Publication
For our first campaign, Tech Disability Project launched a Medium publication featuring stories by tech employees with disabilities. As we seek to understand what disability inclusion looks like and how we can increase disability employment, it’s important to start with the real life experiences of people with disabilities.
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