The box is broken. Let's think outside of it together.
LOIS ARCARI
LOIS ARCARI
Access. Empowerment. Engaging Content.
Lois has over 3 years experience in a portfolio career covering events, arts and content marketing. Currently, she uses her impressive skillset to improve accessibility online and in the workplace. Her passion is to help other disabled graduates identify their talents and advocate for themselves.
SKILLS
How I Can Help
BUSINESS & CONTENT WRITING
Creates business reports & transcripts as well as content writing materials eg. blogs for both B2B and B2C audiences.
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Writes for a range of sectors, in formats such as short-form, industry analysis, Complete Guides, and deep-dive long-form content.
DIGITAL EXPERTISE
Utilises a wide suite of digital skills including: content marketing, digital marketing, social media marketing, blogging & video content scripting.
WEB AND DIGITAL CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY
Analyses the performance of sites and content (particularly e-Learning content) to the WCAG 2.1 Legal framework. I also take into account Universal Design principles and content structuring.
DISABILITY & NEURODIVERSITYÂ ADVOCATE
Uses personal & wider lived experience of disability and neurodiversity to inform their accessibility and inclusion principles.
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Empowers, Mentors, and designs workshops & events for disabled & neurodiverse peers, and commercial audiences.
PROJECTS
Recent Portfolio Sample
This sample provides a brief snapshot of Lois' most recent projects. A full portfolio can be found through LinkedIn, or via request.
If you'd like to learn more about accessibility for your business, get in touch via loisarcari@gmail.com today.
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AUBERGINE CAFE & EVENTS CIC
| Dec 2020 | & | June 2021 |
June 2021 - Hosted the 'Spiky Profiles and Spiderwebs: Embracing Autistic Creativity' Workshop.
This workshop introduced attendees to the concept of a 'spiky profile' as a tool for self-reflective empowerment. The event then used this tool - alongside metaphors of 'spiderwebs' and spider mythologies around the world - to establish a reference point for embracing autistic people's unique creative processes and perspectives.
December 2020 - Hosted a workshop on 'Mixed Media Decoupe': Allowing Attendees to explore new artistic mediums and the liberating potential of the intuitive form of mixed media collage.
TOWSON UNIVERSITY
April 2021
Invited by Professor Zosia Zaks of Townson University, MD, USA, to develop and present a presentation about intersecting bisexual and autistic identities for the Hussman Center for Adults with Autism.
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I adapted my brief to accomodate for the stressful post examination period, opting to create a presentation based on media representation and 'villain coding' of both groups, inspired by the Dreamsounds and Joe Black collaborative video on the topic of villain queer coding and reclaimed empowerment.
LEGACY INTERNATIONAL
| Sept - Oct 2020 |Â & | Apr - Jun 2021 |
Currently working as a third party freelancer on a project involving Disability Confidence scheme assesment.
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Sept - Oct 2020
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Wrote a series of 9 Guides for their Enw Project subsidiary, based on the 9 Protected Characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 UK.
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These reports went above and beyond the initial remit of transcription for these guides, and evolved to include up-to-date research on law changes regarding issues such as non-binary employees recognised as being covered under the Equality Act in September 2020, as well as including statistics and lived experience in order to highlight the importance of Equality measures, and inform employers about how employees with intersectional identities can be affected in the workplace.
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GET IN TOUCH
Lois works with clients across the globe and UK-wide. Predominantly, she has worked with clients based in Norfolk, England and Cardiff & Merthyr Tydfill, Wales.
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Her standard correspondence hours are between 10.30 and 6pm Mon-Sat. Prefered tel. ettiquette is an introductory text or email before booking a time to call.
07714434797