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USA Today Woman of the Year • LinkedIn Top Voice • TEDx Speaker • Grammys Board • AfroTech Future 50 • SHORTY Honoree • CEO, RAMPD • Touring Artist • Disability Culture
I just won RAMPD $10,000 in a fierce Pitch Competition and I'm feelin' good! 🎉 Honored to have competed amongst some of the most innovative founders with disabilities running the game today. 2Gether-International--an outfit providing growth and development for entrepreneurs with disabilities--held a stiff pitch competition among its top accelerator alumni, with the support of National Disability Institute. Fellow founders presented cutting-edge solutions redefining accessibility within hiring practices, prosthetics and safety. I pitched RAMPD's (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities) bold new initiative, the RAMPD Stamp, which will set a disability and sensory-inclusive standard for music venues nationwide while working with the venues and local governance on the resources to achieve those standards, ensuring that every patron, performer or passerby can experience their favorite venues, and that venues large and small, can welcome those dollars. And it got us the prize! Folks with disabilities are creative thinkers, problem solvers and visionaries, as we spend everyday navigating a world that wasn't built for us, adapting to a society that doesn't quite get us, constantly sniffing out that option C. We are inherent entrepreneurs, innovators, disrupters and our different body-minds are an asset It's time we are given the proper resources, training and opportunities to take our power back, make big moves, and finally clean up this inaccessible mess for all the non-disabled folks that will eventually join our club! 💯 Let me know what you think of the RAMPD Stamp initiative or if you'd like to know more! Thanks so much to the 2GI team Diego Mariscal, Keevin O'Rourke, Courtney "Coko" Eason, esteemed judges Nagela Dales, Anthony R., Solomon J. Parker, Tony Waller and NDI! Thank you for all you do to support and enrich the entrepreneur community. #representationmatters #disabilityinclusion #entrepreneurs
Congrats!!
Congrats 🍾🎉🎈🎊 my dearest. You should really feel good. I am proud of you.
👍🏿👍🏿 Lachi ♫
Congratulations 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
Well deserved! Congrats!
Yes! It’s wonderful to see others rewarding and recognizing your fierce and amazing work. Congratulations!
Congrats Lachi ♫ ! I watched, great pitch!
Congratulations!!
Well deserved! Making new paths and shining all the way!! Congratulations lovely Lachi ♫ - Shine on!! ❤️
Vice President Marketing, New York/East Region at OUTFRONT Media
3moWow. Congratulations Lachi.