Draft:Nandita Gupta

Nandita Gupta is an accessibility leader, product manager, engineer, dancer and public speaker. She is driven by her personal connection to accessibility and inclusion.

Nandita is an Accessibility Product Manager at Microsoft where she works on a product that empowers users to create inclusive and accessible experience for all users. As a Mississippi State University alumna and Bagley College of Engineering Hall of Fame inductee, Nandita has a background in electrical engineering, and she worked with Georgia-Pacific as a process controls engineer on human-machine interface systems. She launched Georgia-Pacific’s first mentoring program for entry level engineers and was named Influential Women of Manufacturing 2019 by. She was also one of the 2020 Disability: IN NextGen leaders.

She was inducted into the Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame 2021, which was  established to honor those who are making a significant difference in the lives of youth and adults with disabilities through mentoring and to raise awareness about the importance of mentoring for individuals with disabilities.

She is a Board member on different boards within the community including Lime Connect, an organization with a mission for rebranding disability through achievement where she serves on the Community Engagement Committee. She serves on the Accessibility Leadership Council for Disability: IN. As a Board Member for a non-profit organization – Caroline Calouche & Co, she leads the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee as the Chair where she is working on creating inclusive spaces within the dancing communities.

Inclusion to her, means bringing different voices to the table so we can all be part of the change and design. This goes beyond age, gender, race, culture, varied abilities and more. She wants to see technology being used for good, but also wants to be part of this change.