Speaker: Libby Powers

A PowerPoint presentation and open discussion on thinking outside of the box when it comes to finding employment opportunities that best suit you and your own needs and how to leverage your skills when requesting disability-related accommodations at work.

Join us for our upcoming Community Lecture Night! This will be online only. Please register for the event here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/oCwM7IACQFaARcgwS9Ngbw

• When: March 30th from 6:00-7:30 PM
• Where: Zoom AND streaming on YouTube
• Meeting Accessibility:
  • There will be sign language interpreters and closed captioning available on Zoom. 
  • Chat will be disabled on Zoom during the lecture to better serve people using screen readers. Participants will still be able to message the hosts.
  • When it comes time for the Q&A, people may ask by messaging in the chat so the host can read it out loud or by raising their hand on Zoom so the host can call on them to ask by voice or by ASL.
  • For more information, check out our Technical Info page.

If anyone has any other access needs please contact accessmobpittsburgh@gmail.com as soon as possible, but no later than March 25th.

Speaker Biography:

Libby Powers has been a disability rights activist and disability rights advocate for more than 30 years. She graduated from Duquesne University with a Master of Science in Leadership and Professional Advancement in 2018.  She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media, and Technology with a minor in Marketing from La Roche University in 2013. Libby has worked and volunteered within the Pittsburgh area nonprofit sector for the past 30 years serving multiple healthcare and cross-disability organizations such as the Highmark Caring Place, The Woodlands Foundation, Spina Bifida Association of America, Open Up Pittsburgh, Creative Citizens Inc. Her latest role was working as a product coordinator for a durable medical equipment company.

In 2016, she was a contributing author of “A Teen’s Guide for Medical Transition”, developed and published by two undergraduate students from the School of Innovation and Design at Carnegie Mellon University through a community partnership with ACHIEVA and the Wordout Grant Program through the Clinical Translational Science Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also a co-author of the “Systematic Review: Automated vehicles and services for people with disabilities published in the Journal of Neuroscience Letters in July of 2021.

In 2005, Libby received the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefiting Local Communities and was also named a Community Champion by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and the Multiplying Good Organization. Through her work and community involvement, she hopes to assist in the development and advancement of more equitable and accessible healthcare systems, assistive and rehabilitation technologies, and other related services for those in marginalized populations including those living with disabilities.

Funding for this lecture comes from a grant from the Opportunity Fund.