by Tosin Sulaiman
Made For Us is an award-winning podcast for anyone who’s curious about how to design for inclusivity. Join us each week for conversations with founders, designers, product inclusion leaders and other creative minds who are challening the status quo of how everyday products are designed. Each episode will bring you insights from people who've spent years thinking, perhaps even obsessing, about how to develop products or build companies that are inclusive from the start. AWARDS 2024 Signal Awards: Bronze winner: Most Inspirational Podcast 2024 International Women's Podcast Awards: Finalist: Moment of Insight from a Role Model for 'Reflections on creating the headscarf emoji, with Rayouf Alhumedhi Finalist: Moment of Visionary Leadership for 'No going back': lessons from P&G's product inclusion journey, with Sam Latif'
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April 17, 2025
<p>Welcome to our first crossover episode of Season 2! This week, we’re sharing an interview from the climate design podcast Climify, hosted by Eric Benson - but we’ll be back next week with a new episode of Made For Us!</p><p>Climify is one of our favourite podcast discoveries this year, and we highly recommend it if you’re curious about design and social impact. We hope you enjoy discovering the show through this special episode from Season 4: “Creating Cradle-to-Cradle Clothing with Heike Petersen”. </p><p>In the conversation, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/heikeschnell/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Heike Petersen</a> shares with Eric her multicultural global journey in creating her cradle-to-cradle sustainable, biodegradable, and hypoallergenic yoga fitness brand, <a href="https://www.wellicious.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wellicious</a>. Eric and Heike discuss: </p><ul><li>Challenges of building a sustainable clothing brand</li><li>How to make sense of sustainable certifications </li><li>The crucial shift we all need to make towards slow fashion </li></ul><br/><p>Learn more about Climify: <a href="http://www.climatedesigners.org/edu/climify" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.climatedesigners.org/edu/climify</a> </p><p>---</p><p>Connect with Made for Us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/madeforuspodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn </a>and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/madeforuspodcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a></p><p>Show notes and transcripts: <a href="https://made-for-us.captivate.fm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://made-for-us.captivate.fm/</a> </p>
April 10, 2025
<p>In this episode, we explore the often-overlooked disability data gap in AI, and why it matters for equitable hiring. </p><p>Ariana Aboulafia, who leads the Disability Rights in Technology Policy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), joins us to share insights on designing more inclusive algorithmic systems and creating datasets that are more representative of disability. </p><p>Whether you’re building AI, hiring talent, or advocating for accessibility, this episode is a great starting point for understanding how to reduce disability bias in technology.</p><p>In the conversation, we explore:</p><ul><li>How effective AI hiring tools are at reducing human bias</li><li>The importance of including people with disabilities at every stage of AI development </li><li>The challenges of getting accurate disability data</li><li>How understanding the different definitions of disability can improve data collection </li></ul><br/><p>Missed last week's episode? <a href="https://pod.fo/e/2c20f1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Would Stephen Hawking get hired today? The hiden bias in AI recruiting tools</a></p><p>---</p><p><strong>About Ariana Aboulafia</strong></p><p>Ariana Aboulafia leads the Disability Rights in Technology Policy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology, which focuses on the ways in which certain technologies impact disabled people.</p><p>An attorney with a strong background in public interest advocacy, and with particular expertise in disability, technology, criminal law, and the First Amendment, Ariana has also worked as a public defender.</p><p>Learn more about Ariana: <a href="https://cdt.org/staff/ariana-aboulafia/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cdt.org/staff/ariana-aboulafia/</a></p><p>Follow Ariana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arianaaboulafia/ </p><p>Follow Ariana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArianaAboulafia</p><p>Read the disability data report: https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-07-23-Data-Disability-report-final.pdf </p><p>---</p><p><strong>Connect with Made for Us</strong></p><ul><li>Show notes and transcripts: <a href="https://made-for-us.captivate.fm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://made-for-us.captivate.fm/</a> </li><li>Newsletter: <a href="https://madeforuspodcast.beehiiv.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://madeforuspodcast.beehiiv.com/</a> </li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/madeforuspodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/madeforuspodcast</a> </li><li>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/madeforuspodcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/madeforuspodcast/</a> </li></ul><br/>
April 3, 2025
<p>Could AI hiring create more barriers for people with disabilities instead of levelling the playing field? In this episode, Susan Scott-Parker, founder of business disability international, says standardised and inflexible AI hiring systems risk shutting many people with disabilities out of the workforce. She makes the case for more inclusive HR technologies that are designed for the full range of human experience. </p><p>Tune in to learn more about: </p><ul><li>The unsettling truth about how AI hiring tools are screening out candidates with disabilities - and how to make them fairer</li><li>How HR leaders can challenge biases in AI hiring tools and demand more from the technology they invest in</li><li>Why Susan coined the term “disability confidence” and why it’s not just about “being nice” to disabled people</li></ul><br/><p>Missed last week's episode? <a href="https://pod.fo/e/2bf1d8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">REPLAY: Cliff Weitzman on building the 'voice of the internet'</a></p><p>---</p><p><strong>About Susan Scott-Parker </strong></p><p>Susan Scott-Parker OBE is a creative thought leader internationally recognised for her work on how to mobilise business leadership behind disability equality. She founded the world’s first business disability network, now the Business Disability Forum (UK). In 2016, she established business disability international and advises a growing global community on how to work productively with businesses as valued allies.</p><p>Follow Susan Scott-Parker on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanscottparker1/</p><p>Learn more about business disability international: https://www.businessdisabilityinternational.org/</p><p>Learn more about Project Nemo: https://projectnemo.co.uk/</p><p>Follow Amit Ghose: https://www.tiktok.com/@amitghosenf1</p><p>---</p><p>Connect with Made for Us</p><ul><li>Show notes and transcripts: <a href="https://made-for-us.captivate.fm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://made-for-us.captivate.fm/</a> </li><li>Newsletter: <a href="https://madeforuspodcast.beehiiv.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://madeforuspodcast.beehiiv.com/</a> </li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/madeforuspodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/madeforuspodcast</a> </li><li>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/madeforuspodcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/madeforuspodcast/</a> </li></ul><br/>
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