Entrepreneur | Innovator | Advocate ♿️

♣️🏠Co-creator of The 15% Club - one of the OG clubs for people with disabilities & allies. 

🦾Founder of Puffin Innovations:  Leveling the playing field for people w/disabilities using IoT, ML, & AI.
U.S. Patent 10,509,465

🏆 2022 Webby Awards/Verizon 5G for Change Hackathon finalist #HelloMayday | Verizon Forward for Good Accelerator: Disability Innovation Cohort 2022 | ServiceNow/MIT Solve 2022 | Not Impossible 2019 Limitless Award Winner | 2017 MassChallenge Boston Silver Winner | 2015 MIT Assistive Tech Hackathon Winner 

💡Co-Founder of nonprofit Quirk LAABS 🐙(Leveraging All Abilities for Better Solutions): Creating a space to empower and elevate entrepreneurs with disabilities. 

🎓Guest lecturer at Northeastern University and Boston University Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy/AT classes respectively for over 10 years sharing patient perspective and lived experience.

🗣Speaker on numerous panels covering topics ranging from assistive technology, disability advocacy/inclusion, to entrepreneurship for venues including  HUBweek, ATIA, MIT, Olin College, and SXSW, as well as speaking engagements for notable companies such as CarGurus, Zappos, and SharkNinja.

📒On the Board of Directors of FixPat, and formerly Easterseals Massachusetts (1 of MacKenzie Scott's 384); on the Advisory Board for HackerU.

📢 Featured in The Boston Globe, NYT, Wired, AIMed Magazine, and NowThisHer.

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