“Rachel is an extremely capable, innovative and caring manager and colleague who is extremely effective at building and maintaining bridges both across organizational units within the company as well as with with external partners. She and her team led the company efforts to convert our standard production flows to ePUB3 and consolidating print and digital workflows, working with editorial, production and operations groups to make it happen. Rachel took responsibility for developing content standards across Macmillan Learning and more than fulfilled the role by developing the standards and procedures as well as participating in W3C and BISG efforts (leading the W3C publishing community group). She made a significant difference with respect to increasing the accessibility of our products and extended outreach to the community through active participation in accessibility groups and by encouraging the company to fund external accessibility programs. In addition to all of this she was able to mentor and develop her staff into individuals recognized around the company for their contributions. I’m very happy to have had the opportunity to work with her.”
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Hear Macmillan Learning's Sr. Director of Accessibility Outreach & Communication Rachel Comerford talk about why accessibility matters to her…
Hear Macmillan Learning's Sr. Director of Accessibility Outreach & Communication Rachel Comerford talk about why accessibility matters to her…
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I had a great time speaking with Jason Khurdan on the Uncaptioned Conversations Podcast about Creating Meaningful Change in the world of…
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The question on so many instructors' minds: what is the right use of AI in the classroom. History instructor Suzanne McCormack shares her…
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Experience & Education
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Macmillan
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360Learning Pilot Participant
Macmillan Learning
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Working Together: Deaf & Hearing People Online Course (DeafTEC)
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Design
Milton Glaser
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Information Architecture Overview
General Assembly
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Office of Accessible Systems and Technology (DHS) - What is Section 508 and Why is it Important?
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Programming for Nonprogrammers
General Assembly
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Slide:ology
Duarte
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Storytelling
General Assembly
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User Experience and Design Overview
General Assembly
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Visual Storytelling: An Introduction to Sketchnotes and Infographics
General Assembly
Projects
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MyLab Development
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Chazan’s World Prehistory and Archaeology, 2/e (2010)
Salzman’s Thinking Anthropologically (2010)
Miller’s Cultural Anthropology, 6e (2011)
Scupin’s Cultural Anthropology, 8e (2011)
Scupin’s Anthropology, 7e (2011)
Stanford’s Biological Anthropology, 3e (2011)
Spradley and McCurdy’s Conformity and Conflict, 14e (2011)
MyLogicLab.com
Copi’s Introduction to Logic, 14e (2010)
MyPhilosophyLab.com
Chaffee’s The Philosopher’s Way, 3e…MyAnthroLab.com
Chazan’s World Prehistory and Archaeology, 2/e (2010)
Salzman’s Thinking Anthropologically (2010)
Miller’s Cultural Anthropology, 6e (2011)
Scupin’s Cultural Anthropology, 8e (2011)
Scupin’s Anthropology, 7e (2011)
Stanford’s Biological Anthropology, 3e (2011)
Spradley and McCurdy’s Conformity and Conflict, 14e (2011)
MyLogicLab.com
Copi’s Introduction to Logic, 14e (2010)
MyPhilosophyLab.com
Chaffee’s The Philosopher’s Way, 3e (2010)
Baird’s Philosophical Classics, 6e (2010)
Stewart’s Fundamentals of Philosophy, 7e (2010)
Rauhut’s Ultimate Questions, 3e (2011)
Wolff’s About Philosophy, 11e (2011)
MyReligionLab.com
Fisher’s Living Religions, 8e (2010)
Cunningham’s The Sacred Quest, 5e (2011)
Noss and Grangaard’s History of the World’s Religions, 13e (2011)
Hopfe and Woodward’s Religions of the World, 12e (2011)
Fisher’s Living Religions, Brief 3e (2011)
MySearchLab.com
Tullock’s The Old Testament Story, 9e (2011)
Fagan’s Archaeology: A Brief Introduction (2011)
Fagan’s Ancient Lives (2011)
Gelo’s Indians of the Great Plains, 1e (2011)
Scupin’s Race and Ethnicity, 3e (2011)
Hauer’s Introduction to the Bible, 8e (2011)
Stein’s Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft, 3e (2011)
Sutton’s Introduction to Native North America, 4e (2011)
Corrigan’s Jews, Christians, Muslims, 2e (2011)
Koller’s Asian Philosophies, 6e
Sandbu’s Just Business, 1e (2011)
Schwarze’s Thinking Socratically, 3e (2011)
Veatch’s Bioethics, 3e (2011)
Waller’s, Consider Ethics, 3e (2011)
Seay’s How to Think Logically, 2e (2011)
MyThinkingLab.com
Velasquez’s Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 7e (2011)
Diestler’s Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual, 6e (2011)
Thiroux and Krasemann’s Ethics: Theory and Practice, 11e (2011)
Waller’s Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict, 6e (2011)
Honors & Awards
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Book Industry Study Group Industry Innovator Award
Book Industry Study Group
given to a company or individual who boldly reimagines what publishing is and can be
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International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing
Accessible Book Consortium
This award recognizes outstanding leadership and achievements in advancing the accessibility of commercial e-books and other digital publications for persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled.
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Product of the Year - Scientific American: Psychology
Macmillan Higher Education
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Always Learning - Employee Achievement Award
Pearson Education
Pearson Educations department of Humanities and Social Sciences annually awards employees for achievements during the year. I was recognized in 2012 for innovative new technology work including introducing text-to-speech audio features to our MyLab products, increasing usability for visually impaired students.
Organizations
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Women's Media Group
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BISG
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W3C
Co-Chair ePUB Community Group
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IMS Global
Member - Accessibility Working Group
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