Anu Pala

Anu Pala is an accessibility and inclusion consultant, professional speaker, and podcast producer. The majority of Anu’s career has been in the non-profit sector serving marginalized and underrepresented groups and working with organizations to help make their practices more accessible, equitable, and inclusive. Anu has a BA in professional communications and specializes in workplace inclusion and digital accessibility. She carries out this work now through her business, Anu Vision Coaching & Consulting.

As an accessibility professional with lived experience of vision loss, Anu has been instrumental in changing the way people think about disability inclusion and accessibility by injecting creativity into everything she does. Anu’s philosophy is to experience life with enthusiasm, positivity and a glass half-full attitude.

Anu’s expertise has been featured in various media outlets including CBC Radio, Joy TV, and through her monthly segment on Accessible Media Inc.

In 2019, Anu was a recipient of the Founders Award in recognition of having exemplified the qualities of leadership, sustainability and personal development through Royal Roads University and was a delegate of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2020 and 2021.

“It is a privilege to have found my life purpose through vision loss and to use my journey as a vehicle to create meaningful change.”