Speaker, Strategist, & AI Governance Authority

Most organizations are adopting AI faster than they’re governing it. This talk cuts through the hype and the legalese to give leaders a clear, actionable picture of what AI governance actually looks like and what happens when you skip it.

Your audience will leave with

• •A plain-language framework for understanding AI risk at the leadership level
• •The three governance gaps most organizations don’t know they have
• •A 90-day action plan template for getting governance started

Best for: C-suite, board members, legal, compliance, and IT leadership

Accessibility compliance is treated as a technical requirement. It’s actually a civil rights issue. This talk reframes digital accessibility through the lens of equity, policy, and organizational accountability and shows why the current approach is failing.

Your audience will leave with

• •Why WCAG compliance alone doesn’t equal accessibility
• •How AI-powered tools are introducing new barriers for disabled users
• •What enforcement actually looks like under current federal standards

Best for: Government agencies, higher education, healthcare, and any organization with public-facing digital systems

AI is making decisions about who gets hired, who gets housing, and who gets healthcare. Most of those systems have no accountability structure, no appeals process, and no one asking whether the output is fair. This talk tells those stories and lays out what responsible AI actually requires.

Your audience will leave with

• •Real-world case studies of AI harm across sectors
• •A framework for evaluating whether your AI systems are accountable
• •The gap between “ethical AI” as marketing and ethical AI as practice

Best for: Leadership teams, policymakers, legal, HR, and anyone deploying AI in high-stakes decisions

Technology systems regularly retraumatize the populations they claim to support through surveillance UX, punitive defaults, and designs that assume trust. This talk draws on neuroscience, lived experience, and design practice to show what trauma-informed technology actually looks like.

Your audience will leave with

• •How nervous system science applies to product and systems design
• •The five design patterns most likely to cause harm in vulnerable populations
• •A practical checklist for evaluating whether your systems are trauma-informed

Best for: Product teams, UX designers, social services, healthcare, education, and mission-driven organizations

Rachel doesn’t just write about AI governance she manages technology infrastructure for 45,000 scholars. This talk is a practitioner’s account of what it takes to build ethical AI systems inside real organizations with real constraints, real politics, and real deadlines.

Your audience will leave with

• •What an AI governance stack actually looks like inside an organization
• •How to build cross-functional accountability without creating bureaucracy
• •The difference between AI policy on paper and AI governance in practice

Best for: IT leaders, CIOs, CTOs, and technical leadership responsible for AI deployment

Neurodivergent thinkers see systems differently, not despite their wiring, but because of it. Pattern recognition, cross-domain connection, and the ability to hold complexity are neurodivergent strengths. This talk challenges the deficit model and reframes neurodivergence as a strategic advantage.

Your audience will leave with

• •The neuroscience behind why neurodivergent minds excel at systems-level problems
• •How organizations systematically exclude their best systems thinkers
• •Practical changes to hiring, team design, and meeting culture that unlock cognitive diversity

Best for: HR, DEI, leadership, and any organization serious about innovation and inclusion