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SUMMARY:YPG Breaking Barriers: Achieving Accessibility & EDI in Engineering Design
DESCRIPTION:June 22\, 2023  |  Virtual Event\n\n\nJoin ACEC-BC’s Young Professionals Group for a virtual event on Breaking Barriers: Achieving Accessibility\, Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion in Engineering Design. \nPD Hours: 1 hour \nCost: ACEC-BC member: Free | Non member: $15 \nOur guest speaker will be drawing from his experiences as an accessibility and inclusion advocate who has served on a number of committees within the Lower Mainland\, including TransLink’s Access Transit User’s Advisory Committee and the City of Vancouver’s Persons with Disability Advisory Committee.  Attendees can expect to come away from this session with a deeper understanding of actions that young professionals can take to achieve accessibility\, equity\, diversity\, and inclusion in engineering design and in their engineering community. \nAbout the speaker  \nYat Li\, Senior Accessibility Consultant\, Presidents Group \nYat Li is a Hong Kong-Canadian who was born without ears and is Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Despite facing immense obstacles in life\, Yat persevered through challenges and discovered that self-disclosure unlocks a world of possibilities. He is now a highly sought-after speaker in North America\, inspiring industry leaders that congenital disability does not define a person’s career path. Yat is an accessibility and inclusion advocate who travels the world\, speaking to thousands of senior leaders about the importance of diversity and inclusivity. Yat’s passion is to remove the stigma from hiring people with disabilities and inspire people to overcome every visible or invisible disability.
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