Chancey Fleet
New York Public Library / Assistive Tech Coordinator
Pronouns: She/Her
Chancey Fleet is a Brooklyn-based tech educator and activist who identifies as Blind. Chancey is the Assistive Technology Coordinator at the New York Public Library. In that role, she curates accessible technology in the branch, collaborates across the NYPL system to improve equity of access, and coordinates a diverse team of staff and volunteers who provide one-to-one tech coaching and group workshops, free of charge and open to all. Through a 2017 NYPL Innovation grant, she founded and maintains the Dimensions Project, a free open lab for the exploration and creation of accessible images, models and data representations through tactile graphics, 3d models and nonvisual approaches to coding, CAD, and “visual” arts.
Read more about Chancey’s talk here: “Maker/Space: a DIY, Accessible Workflow for Tactile Graphics Used in Zero-Gravity Flight“
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