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Communicating For Good: "Creating accessible content reaffirms that people with disabilities matter and are just as deserving of equitable and inclusive access to content as their peers."

Social Media Accessibility: How and Why it Matters

Likes, shares, and views are important to any brand’s digital presence, but if accessibility is missing from your social media strategy, your brand is limiting its reach and excluding a large subset of the population. According to the…

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Designing to Break Stereotypes

There is a rising movement to “design for impact” and “design for good”, both of which are important conversations for the broad design community to be having. But to truly participate in those conversations, we first must pause to…

Cardboard protest sign reading What lessens one of us lessens all of us

Inclusive Marketing, Industry Commentary

Promoting Equity Through Design

In our recent community conversation we looked at recent examples of how design has subtly (and sometimes not-so-subtly) perpetuated stereotypes, prejudices, and racism. Design is all around us and we all participate in the system as either…

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Inclusive Marketing, Industry Commentary

The Power of Equitable Design (And 3 Tips to Become a More Inclusive Communicator)

By Eleni Stamoulis “Design creates culture.” One of my professors from grad school said this to my class when teaching us about the ethics of graphic design. He then showed us national campaigns he designed that sexualized women or…

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Inclusive Marketing, Industry Commentary

Why Listening to All Sides Matters

By Carrie Fox Last weekend, I was listening to a radio program when I heard a fascinating interview. Truth is, I can’t remember the name of the individual being interviewed. I can’t even remember why he was chosen to be featured in the…

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Inclusive Marketing, Industry Commentary

Do I Belong Here?

Last month, NBC News’ Generation Latino blog published the story of 18-year old Jason Mero, who headed off to Brown University this fall, “proudly staking claim to his Latinx heritage, but mindful that the sacrifices his immigrant parents…

Inclusive Marketing, Industry Commentary

Changing the Narrative

By Carrie Fox I was 16 and working my earliest job in public relations when I first experienced the power of narrative change. It was coming on Christmas and I had been tasked with telling the story of another 16-year old girl living with…

Inclusive Marketing, Industry Commentary

Was it Your Mail I Opened?

By Carrie Fox Given my line of work, I receive a significant amount of mail from social good organizations. That means I’m on the receiving end of a lot of fundraising appeals, annual reports, and marketing materials—some very well-produced…

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Inclusive Marketing, Industry Commentary

Communicating Outside of Comfort Zones

By Carrie Fox To communicate effectively, we know that the people with whom we’re speaking—the humans at the receiving end of our messages— are just as important as the words we use. But we also realize that the human element of communicating…

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Inclusive Marketing, Industry Commentary

What Bias is Hiding in Your Writing?

“You can observe a lot by watching.” Yogi Berra was right. You can, in fact, observe a lot by watching. The baseball great, who would have turned 93 this weekend, had his fair share of Yogi-isms, but this one has always been…