‘Disability keeps getting left out’: A Google exec on boosting representation of people with disabilities — and bringing them into the C-suite

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At the dawn of the dot-com boom, Silicon Valley was an ideal place for KR Liu to grow up and immerse herself in the latest gadgets. Liu, who was diagnosed with severe hearing loss at age 2, became skilled at disguising her disability by lip reading and relying on technology to communicate.