Joe-Anne Kek-Pamenter is a graphic designer and researcher focusing on access, inclusion and employment for people with disability. Her advocacy grew out of her own experiences getting – and keeping – jobs as a person with hearing impairment.
Joe-Anne says she’s not the only person in her family with hearing loss, and when she was young she didn't consider herself to have disability at all. But it was very different in the workplace, and after several bad experiences with unsupportive jobs she's now working on changing the way Australia supports workers with disability.
These days Joe-Anne wears many hats, including roles with The Hopkins Centre's Dignity Project, Griffith University's Reimagining Disability, and the advisory board for virtual business incubator Enabled.VIP. As a freelance graphic designer, her work includes Media Diversity Australia's Disability Reporting Handbook and the Australian Disability Clearninghouse on Education and Training's guidelines for supporting Deaf and hard of hearing students in online learning.
Useful links
- Transcript for this episode: https://carersqld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/5.4-Designing-inclusive-employment.docx
- The Dignity Project: https://www.hopkinscentre.edu.au/project/the-dignity-project-26
- Reimagining Disability (Griffith University): https://www.griffith.edu.au/research/reimagining-disability-creating-inclusive-futures
- Media Diversity Australia’s Disability Reporting Handbook: https://www.mediadiversityaustralia.org/disability-reporting-handbook/
- ADCET Guidelines: Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Online: https://www.adcet.edu.au/resource/10475/guidelines-supporting-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-students-online
- HabITec: https://www.habitec.com.au/
- Enabled.VIP: https://enabled.vip/
- Carers Queensland upcoming events and workshops: www.carersqld.com.au/events
- Carers Queensland NDIS on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarersQueenslandNDIS
Credits
- Interview: Fiona Stutz
- Voice artist: Kelly Jones
- Production: Jodie van de Wetering
