Inspired by her daughter Sara, who was born with Down’s Syndrome, Debra Rub started a for-profit organization called TecAccess, that would help companies see the worth and potential in hiring disabled employees. By 2011, TecAccess, which was an I.C.T. accessibility firm whose majority of staff were technologists with disabilities, was a multi-million-dollar firm.

Debra went on to establish Ruh Global Communications which focuses on global disability inclusion, digital marketing, employability, I.C.T. accessibility, human rights, social media marketing and implementation of theUnited Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Debra is Co-Founder of AXSChat (www.AXSChat.com) a twitter chat about accessibility

and disability inclusion. AXSChat is the #1 TweetChat in the world with over billion tweets. Axschat

happens every Tuesday at 3PM EST on twitter at #AXSchat. She is also a G3ict board advisor

and is an employability and technology chair member. AXSCHAT is one of Hack Access Dublin’s media partners.

Debra is a recognized global influencer on social media and uses the following platforms

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, G+, Tumblr, and Pinterest. Her social media handle is

@debraruh with over 300,000+ followers on all mediums. Named as “Top 5% of Social Media

Influencers” and “Top 0.1% of people talking about Disability Inclusion and Accessibility” by

KLOUT. Debra is proud to be a blogger for The Huffington Post.