Matisse Hamel-Nelis (she/her)

Matisse Hamel-Nelis is an award-winning communications and digital accessibility consultant, author and PR professor at Durham College.

Based in Toronto, Canada, she also founded and hosts the PR & Lattes podcast and is the past Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee for the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). She is certified as an Accessible Documents Specialist (ADS) and a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) through the International Association of Accessibility Professionals.

Matisse’s talk:

Working better, together: accessibility, inclusion and internal communications

We champion accessibility for our audiences, but what about our own workplaces? Every day, people are accidentally excluded by the ways we’ve learned to work together. From inaccessible meeting practices to jargon-heavy emails, from chaotic collaboration systems to documents that only work for some people, we’re creating barriers for our colleagues.

Matisse is talking alongside Lisa Riemers.

Website: https://matissenelis.com/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matissenelis/ 

Matisse Hamel-Nelis a communications and digital accessibility consultant, author, and PR professor. She has shoulder-length light pink hair and is wearing a bright pink textured top.