The Interview Process: Leveraging Personal and Lived Experience

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My name is Nico Santiago. I am an industrial design student going into my senior year at Rochester Institute of Technology. I’m currently learning how to go through the interview process, write a targeted resume, and build a portfolio. My dream is to one day own a small industrial design firm focused on creating products for people with disabilities. Growing up with Congenital Myasthenia Gravis (CMG) taught me that the world was not designed for people like me. Today, I’ll share some tips and insights on how to communicate lived experience as an advantage during internship or job interviews.

Differences in Design: Accessible, Inclusive, And Universal

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My name is Nico Santiago. I am an industrial design student going into my junior year at Rochester Institute of Technology. My dream is to one day own a small industrial design firm focused on creating products for people with disabilities. Growing up with Congenital Myasthenia Gravis (CMG) taught me that the world was not designed for people like me. Today, I’ll break down different design approaches.

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Closing the Digital and Disability Divides in Upstate New York

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Our lifestyles become increasingly more digital by the day. It’s here, within this digital revolution, that two long-established issues have collided. The good news is that we can start to shrink the gaps of the disability and digital divides through the prioritization of accessibility in our tech development, content creation, and distribution processes. Let’s see how we’re working on this right here in Upstate New York.

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Ableism: Listening, Learning, & Unlearning

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Ableism is discrimination in favor of able-bodied people, and there are MANY ways in which it can manifest. Whether conscious or subconscious, ableism affects people with disabilities in a negative way — a way that people without disabilities could never truly understand. So if you don’t have a disability, and you’ve never given much thought to this particular “ism,” it’s time to start listening, learning, and unlearning from those who know it best through living it.

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The Start of the Highway

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Welcome to our new blog, where we’ll share our trials, successes, insights, and more. We don’t set out to be an all-knowing voice of everyone, but we promise to keep the conversation on these important topics, realities, and advances going. We hope you’ll stick around for our Reflections from the Road. Let’s start at the beginning.