Alexa Pritting is the Coordinating Producer for the Paralympic Games and a Producer for NBC Sports Group. In this role, she produces NBC’s figure skating broadcasts among other Olympic and Paralympic sports.

During her decade-long tenure with NBC Sports Group, Pritting has contributed to NBC Olympics’ coverage for seven Olympic Games and three Paralympic Games, as well as numerous national and world championships. She began her career as a researcher at ESPN.

The three-time Sports Emmy Award winner is familiar with sports as a professional and as a competitor. A lifelong figure skater, she competed at the national level.

Pritting graduated from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. She is a native of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and when not producing, Pritting enjoys traveling the world. Her most recent trips include Portugal, South Africa, India, and Argentina.

Alice Wong is a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant. She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014.

Alice is also a co-partner in four projects: DisabledWriters.com, a resource to help editors connect with disabled writers and journalists, #CripLit, a series of Twitter chats for disabled writers with novelist Nicola Griffith, #CripTheVote, a nonpartisan online movement encouraging the political participation of disabled people with co-partners Andrew Pulrang and Gregg Beratan, and Access Is Love with co-partners Mia Mingus and Sandy Ho, a campaign that aims to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love instead of a burden or an afterthought.

Bob is a Technical Program Manager focused on projects that apply AI techniques to solve problems related to disabilities and social good. This includes improving speech recognition for those with impaired speech as well as driving innovation in other assistive communication technologies. His prior work at Google involved using AI to improve cancer diagnostics and to improve access to health vital signs. He also led teams developing next-generation imaging systems used for products like Google Maps and StreetView.

Chelsea is currently a Senior UX Engineer at Comcast, where she is focused on bridging the gap between design and engineering. Chelsea is a lead on the Xfinity Design System, an effort to align and standardize design and handoff processes across all Xfinity products. She partners with design and engineering teams across multiple lines of business to ensure that design delivery is seamless, scalable, and accessible.

Chris has worked at Comcast since 2007, currently as a Distinguished Engineer and as a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies. He enjoys building/motivating teams and ramping up new projects including Xfinity Home, Xfinity xFi, and Xfinity Flex using the latest patterns and web primitives.

Connie Suh is a Philadelphia native and an Engineer 2 at Comcast. Graduating in 2018, from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Psychology and Computer Science (plus a Theater Arts minor!), Connie returned to her hometown to begin her career as a front-end developer. Over the past two years, Connie has worked on a variety of agent and customer-facing applications within the Sales Technology domain. Currently, she specializes in JavaScript, React, and CSS.

Having a research background in STEM and being exposed to programming late in her academic career, Connie is a big promoter of women in technology. She is involved in Comcast's Women's Network group where she leads a small group each month, she serves on the communications committee for TECHWomen - Philadelphia and is part of the Asian Pacific Americans & Young Professionals Network at Comcast. Outside of work, Connie enjoys taking scenic walks throughout the city while listening to a True Crime podcast and checking out new bookstores! Feel free to send her book recommendations!

When Dan Mancina was in his 20s, he started losing sight in his left eye. His right eye soon followed. The cause was a hereditary disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder that involves a breakdown of cells in the retina that leads to vision degeneration. He has since lost 100% of his vision. But that hasn’t stopped him from continuing to skate. In fact, skateboarding is the only time that he doesn’t think about his blindness. Granted for Dan, skateboarding takes careful planning.

Dan is part of two very well-respected teams within skateboarding: Adidas skateboarding and Real skateboards. These partnerships allow Dan’s message to gain broad exposure in sharing his experience and love of skateboarding worldwide.

David Grizzanti joined Comcast in 2016 and is currently a senior principal engineer where he oversees the development of multi-tenant software platforms that support tens of millions of customers across North America. David has more than 10 years of software experience. His areas of interest include open-source software and communities, observability, and engineering leadership.

As a UX Engineering Manager at Comcast, Emily leads a team dedicated to standardizing design and architecture across Comcast's entertainment products. She specializes in building JavaScript applications and is a lead front-end developer on the Comcast Flex product. Her and her team bridge the gap between design and development by working with designers to build and user test prototypes, as well as side-by-side with production engineering teams to deliver products to customers.

Driven, highly accomplished communications professional respected for experience in strategic messaging and public relations for elected leaders. Proven track record of managing 24/7 press access and overseeing crisis communications responses for local and national figures. Known as a motivational, influential leader who guides team members in creating strategic messaging across print, broadcast, and digital media platforms. Builds and maintains lasting relationships, leveraging communication skills to converse with clarity and diplomacy. Out-of-the-box thinker passionate about mission-driven work and utilizing communications skills to enable long-term organizational growth.

Gregory Haynes is the Lead Games User Researcher at the AbleGamers Charity. Committed to fostering inclusive design practices, he has led game accessibility workshops and consultations with companies in the technology industry including Google, Oculus, Square Enix, Activision Blizzard, and Microsoft. Greg hopes for greater agency for people with disabilities seeking their own enriching gameplay experiences.

Dr. Jaipreet Virdi is an award-winning historian whose research focuses on the ways medicine and technology impact the lived experiences of disabled people. Her first book, "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (University of Chicago Press, 2020) raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. She has published articles on diagnostic technologies, audiometry, hearing aids, and the medicalization of deafness and has published essays in The Atlantic and the New Internationalist.

As an educator, Virdi has taught at Ryerson University, the University of Toronto, and Brock University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the University of Delaware where she teaches courses on disability histories, the history of medicine, and health activism.

Jessie Hall is the Director of Engineering and Lead Peer Counselor at the AbleGamers charity. She brings her expertise in leading peer counseling sessions with disabled gamers to her love of building and creating new accessible controllers. She has collaborated with over 20 inventors and owns a patent with her fellow AbleGamers colleagues.

Joel Moffatt is the Principal Product Manager and Customer Experience Lead for Comcast’s Accessibility Team. He helps drive the team’s Inclusive Experience strategy through engagement with disability community thought leaders, fostering product knowledge within the Accessibility Customer Support Center, managing the Comcast Accessibility Lab, and ensuring that inclusive design and accessibility are integrated into Comcast’s culture.

Joel joined Comcast’s Accessibility Team soon after its formation in 2013 and has worked on the launches of the X1 talking guide, Comcast’s Accessibility Lab, and the Accessibility Support Center. Most recently, he has managed the X1 Accessible Web Remote product, enabling customers who use eye-tracking, switch controls, and other assistive technologies to navigate the Xfinity X1 TV experience independently.

John brings broad industry experience working with cable, telco, wireless and satellite companies as well as TV content producers, broadcasters, and distributors. His experiences have ranged throughout the full software delivery lifecycle, including strategy, planning, architecture, design, build, test, deploy, operate, maintain and govern.

His most recent focus is on innovation around product and customer experience concepts, with the objectives of assessing how customers consume content and services across a diverse range of devices and finding ways to leverage new technologies and changing consumer behaviors to better serve them. John also drives Accenture’s Client Co-Innovation Labs (CCIL), which are shared environments with our clients to rapidly co-innovate and prototype new products, customer experience, security, network, and analytics concepts that can quickly be brought to market.

Karen is a managing director in Accenture’s Northeast (NE) Market Unit leading account strategies that drive large-scale transformation, thought leadership, and innovation for the firm’s top Financial Services and Communication, Media, and Technology (CMT) clients.

Karen served as the client account lead for a large, multinational Financial Services account with overall P&L responsibility driving value-led innovation, deep client relationships, and business transformation programs while bringing industry expertise and insight. Most recently, Karen joined one of Accenture’s largest CMT clients comprised of over 2,000 Accenture colleagues. She serves as the account portfolio lead helping the client drive large-scale HR, finance, and compliance transformations.

In addition, Karen is Accenture’s NE Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) Executive Sponsor as part of the NE Leadership Team, working closely with our I&D NE leader, national ERG’s and other client account leaders to help drive the I&D agenda and programs at the account level and across the firm.

Karen joined Accenture in September 2017 after spending 20+ years at Xerox Corporation as a global managing director - managing the firm’s largest and most strategic Financial Services clients and global P&L. Over the span of her career at Xerox, she held leadership roles within Corporate Strategy, World-Wide Alliances, and Digital Transformation Services. She was also a part of the Xerox/ACS integration team in 2010. Karen was also co-founder of Xerox’s Women in Tech, Xerox Global Mentoring Program, and the Global Focus Executive Program (a program that aligned top Xerox Executives with the top 25 Strategic Accounts).

Karen holds a BA and a Master’s degree from the University of Virginia in Marketing Communications and Business. She also sits on the Board of Directors of the Apollo Theater and iMentor National Organization. Karen was the recipient of The Network Journal’s Top 25 Black Women in Business in May 2019.

Kim Woozy (she/her) is an entrepreneur, community leader, and advocate in the skateboarding community. She has spent the last 15 years creating and contributing to brands, organizations, and events that inspire, connect and empower girls and women including MAHFIA.TV, Women’s Skateboarding Alliance (WSA), Quit Your Day Job Film, The Skate Exchange Tokyo, Skate Like a Girl, and Slmbr Party. In 2019, she spoke on behalf of California State Bill AB 467 (Equal Pay for Equal Play) which was signed into law in 2020. She currently serves as the Director of Marketing & Partnerships at Skate Like a Girl, a 501c3 community-led organization whose mission is to create an inclusive community by promoting confidence, leadership, and social justice through skateboarding. Challenging who and how people skateboard, Skate Like a Girl lowers barriers to entry and brings people together regardless of age, gender, race, and resources.

Born, raised, and based in the Bay Area, California, Kim also sits on the community advisory board for the Center for Sport and Social Justice at Cal State East Bay and the Oakland Roots Soccer Club. Additionally, she is a member of the Gender Equality Commission for World Skate. Finding her own strength, freedom, and self-expression through board sports, she is committed to creating accessible opportunities for everyone to participate.

Lauren is a lead product designer at MassMutual and adjunct professor of information architecture and user experience design at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Given her background in journalism, media, and communication, she is passionate about ethical product design. She has degrees from Oregon State University and The New School.

Leo Baker (previously known as Lacey Baker) is one of the most iconic skateboarders in the world. Before their career took off in 2017, there was little hope for skaters who were outspoken, unapologetically queer, and who did not fit the traditional mold of a skateboarder. Now, in 2020, things are starting to change, due in large part to pioneers like Leo Baker.

At an early age, they found themselves in the semi-finals of Tampa Am, and up on the podium at X Games, securing bronze in 2006 at age 13. After seven X Games top finishes, Leo took their abilities to Street League for back-to-back victories in 2016 and 2017. Leo has already put out four major video parts, a feat many professional skaters hope to reach within their lifetime. Their Thrasher's "My World," a part Leo filmed while working a full-time job, was arguably the best video part of 2017. Aside from skate video parts, Leo is generally no stranger to being in front of the camera in other ways. Showcasing their authentic self, they have been a part of many digital media campaigns, including outlets like ESPN, Vice, Nike's 30th Anniversary 'Just Do It' Campaign, Hypebae, and even a Miley Cyrus music video. Not to mention being featured in New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Paper Magazine, the cover of Dazed China, and many more publications. At every opportunity, Leo is advocating for equity and inclusion in skateboarding and beyond. They founded the NYC Skate Project, which is an effort to shift the dynamics in skateboarding and create a safe space for non-male skaters to build community with each other. Their undying commitment to themselves and their scene has earned them global adoration from fans and friends both near and far.

I'm an inventor and developer of space, cellular, and cable solutions for communications and entertainment. Since childhood, I've been attracted to technically complex systems including television repair, satellite construction and launch, smartphone development, and wireless home networking. I've adapted cable networks to 3D, Ultra HD, High Dynamic Range, and now Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality Programming. I believe the best way to develop one part of a system is to understand its entirety. In video entertainment and communications, that involved gaining a glass to glass understanding of the content creation through to display rendering workflows and technologies.

My current focus areas include Blockchain, Digital Healthcare, and Embedded AI. I've been granted over a dozen patents in the areas of communication and entertainment systems. I possess a BSEE degree from Rutgers College of Engineering and an MSEE degree with a specialization in Electro-Physics from Drexel University. When not sitting in seat 8A heading to a conference to attend or speak, I enjoy learning how to raise a family including Hungarian Vizslas and continuing to perfect the technical complexities of triathlon transitions.

Michael Winslow picked up his love for programming when he was 10 years old writing GW-Basic code on his Tandy-1000. With his passion for designing simple solutions to complex problems, Michael has played key roles at companies like Aramark, Ortho-McNeil, Oracle and Xfinity Mobile. He is a seasoned international public speaker who enjoys using his platform to uplift engineers and create powerfully diverse teams in technology. Michael is currently a DevOps advocate, Agile enthusiast, and dedicated people-leader for the Entertainment Technology group at Comcast.

Nithya Ruff is the Head of Comcast’s Open Source Program Office. She is responsible for growing Open Source culture and transformation inside of Comcast and driving engagement with external communities.

Nithya has been director-at-large on the Linux Foundation Board for the last 3 years and was recently elected to be Chair of the Linux Foundation Board. She looks forward to advancing the mission of the Linux Foundation around building sustainable ecosystems built on open collaboration. She has been a passionate advocate and a speaker for opening doors to new people in Open Source for many years. Nithya graduated with an MS in Computer Science from NDSU and an MBA from the University of Rochester, Simon Business School.

Patrick G. Lee (he/they) is a queer diasporic Korean documentary filmmaker, writer, and community organizer. He’s interested in building collaborative models of filmmaking that equip queer and trans people of color with media-making skills.

His most recent project, "Unspoken," won several festival awards, including the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Austin Asian American Film Festival. Patrick’s five-part docuseries for NBC News on LGBTQ Asian Pacific American history won the NAMIC Vision Award for Long Form Digital Content. His writing has appeared in Mother Jones, The Nation, ProPublica, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Since 2016, Patrick has worked with the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance to help build a vibrant network of queer Asian grassroots groups across the country.

His debut feature, "Untitled KQT Project," is supported by Firelight Media, Sundance, and CAAM. He has been coping with pandemic times mostly by eating carbs.

Lane has 26 years of experience in the cable industry holding various marketing, analytics, operations, and customer-facing positions with Comcast. Prior to her current Business Intelligence role, Lane served as a Senior Manager of Marketing Analytics where she was responsible for subscriber and sales channel performance analysis for the Western New England Region. During her tenure at Comcast, Lane has been an instrumental leader to communicate the story that enables her internal customers to make sound decisions and project plans to drive better employee behaviors, show trending of successful efforts, expose outliers, and NPS elevation candidates. Lane has also developed databases to increase the accuracy of annual forecasts and budgets, fostered a cross-functional culture, streamlined the data-gathering of targeted marketing campaigns, and played an integral role in the creation of the region’s Revenue Assurance Department.

Lane is a recipient of Comcast’s Northeast Division Legends Award and was nominated for the Circle of Success Award, which she earned for demonstrating extraordinary proactive "Think Customer First" Guiding Principles. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Southern Connecticut State University.

Sean is a Senior Product Manager with the Accessibility team, ensuring that Comcast products are available to all customers, regardless of abilities. Focused on Entertainment, he delivers innovative and inclusive experiences across the X1, Flex, and Stream platforms through close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Design teams. He's fortunate to work with the smartest people he knows on groundbreaking technology. Dedicated to adding acronyms to his signature, he’s amassed CSM, CSPO, and CPACC certifications.

Shilla Saebi is an Open Source Program Manager who focuses on the community and has been with Comcast for over a decade. She is an open source maintainer and actively gives back to several open source projects.

From 2014–2017, she was nominated to serve as a member of the OpenStack User Committee by the existing board members, becoming the first woman to serve on OpenStack’s UC. She was also a core contributor to the OpenStack docs project and currently sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for OpenStack Superuser Magazine. Shilla also served on the board of the OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC) from 2015–2017, where she helped the community develop and test code at scale. She formed the OpenStack Northern Virginia meetup group which has over 650 members.

Shilla also started the Philadelphia Prometheus meetup group and acts as a CNCF ambassador. She has authored several blog posts on open source technology and has spoken about cloud operations, diversity, and open source community building at many technology conferences around the globe. Outside of the world of open source, she enjoys music, traveling, outdoor activities, and art.

Shruthi majored in Computer Science in college after being inspired by a programming class in her final year of high school. After completing her undergrad and master’s degrees, she went on to work on e-commerce projects for a prominent book publishing company.

Shruthi now is a senior engineer at Comcast working on the software delivery team where she helps standardize the CI/CD processes for the entire organization.

Even though she works for one of the largest entertainment companies in the world, Shruthi is an avid reader who simply enjoys curling up with a good book.