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Kamille Richardson

Trying to get your foot in the door in the corporate world as a Black woman isn’t easy. This becomes way more difficult when you’re also disabled. The employment rate for people with disabilities in the US reached 22.5% in 2023; the tech sector appears to have a lower rate. A survey of the global AWS community found that only 11% of respondents had a disability or neurodiversity.  Additionally, disabled people the unemployment rate for disabled people is reportedly twice as high as that of the general population, even though companies that are