Why: As an attendee, I want to learn about Protest Access, "a volunteer collective focused on Black Lives Matter and anti-racism related content on social media" They provide captioning, transcription, and visual descriptions as requested by online communities. (Source: Protest Access website)
Title: TBD
Synopsis: TBD
Bios:
Name: Micah Fahar, ProtestAccess co-founder, pronouns: they
Bio: Micah is a 28-year-old non-binary person living in California. They are working towards becoming a therapist and are a co-founder of Protest Access. Some of their other passions include animals, video games, singing, and other creative arts
Name: Cyril Slemaker, pronouns: he/they
Bio: Cyril is a 32-year-old, visually impaired trans man who lives in Boston. They are a former K-12 educator. As part of Protest Access, Cyril is one of the visual support mentors who helps create descriptive transcripts for Protest Access content
Username: JaxLily, pronouns: they
Bio: Jax Lily is a 28-year-old nonbinary person from CA. They are a semi-verbal autistic AAC-user, and have APD and also struggle with visual processing. They serve on the Advisory Board of Protest Access and are also working on information-related projects such as the design of our website. Outside of PA, they are in grad school studying library and information science and have a background in Deaf Education and Linguistics
Name: Jordan ("Jo") Nelson Stoeger, pronouns: she/her
Bio: Jo is a 29-year-old cis woman from Minnesota. She works as a statistician at a research university in the midwest US and volunteers at ProtestAccess as the workflow manager. Jo loves cats, the outdoors, and books!
Audiences: Digital accessibility, media, activism
When: Thursday, Jan. 14th
ToDo
30 days before the event
[x] Co-org to reach out to panelists
[x] Have a kick-off conversation
[x] Coordinate with co-orgs for date availability
[x] Coordinate with panelists for next steps
[x] Get synopsis
[x] Get bios
[x] Set potential dates
[x] Secure ACS captioner
[x] Create event page/URL
15 days before the event(Wednesday, December 30th)
[ ] Announce through channels (MTLS)
[x] Mailing list
[x] Twitter
[ ] LinkedIn
[x] Web-A11Y Slack
[x] Share event page/URL with panelists
1-5 days before the event
[x] Reminders through channels (MTLS)
[x] Mailing list
[x] Twitter
[ ] LinkedIn
[x] Web-A11Y Slack
[x] Follow up with panelists for being online (5-10 before official "online") and check for any needs
[x] Update housekeeping slides
Day of event
[x] Co-orgs are ready before Zoom opens (5-10 minutes before) to discuss any needs/issues
[x] Coordinate with presenter
[x] Announcements and panel talk
1-5 days after the event
[ ] Post-announcement, YouTube share, and thanks (MTLS)
[ ] Shoutout for Protest Access
[ ] Finalize transcript
[ ] Get transcript from ACS
[ ] Edit transcript and push to GitHub transcript repo
Why: As an attendee, I want to learn about Protest Access, "a volunteer collective focused on Black Lives Matter and anti-racism related content on social media" They provide captioning, transcription, and visual descriptions as requested by online communities. (Source: Protest Access website)
Title: TBD Synopsis: TBD
Bios:
Audiences: Digital accessibility, media, activism When: Thursday, Jan. 14th
ToDo
30 days before the event
15 days before the event (Wednesday, December 30th)
1-5 days before the event
Day of event
1-5 days after the event
Post-event