Ioana Tanase

Ioana Tanase was 32 (ish) when she found out that she was dyslexic. At that time, she didn’t understand dyslexia – that thing where you can’t read or write well. In discovering more about herself, she developed a passion for learning about all disability, and consequentially accessibility. She knew this was the field she MUST work in. She is now part of a freaking brilliant team (she gets starstruck every day, people) that work on Accessibility at Microsoft. She looks after the AI for Accessibility grantees (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-for-accessibility) in their quest to push the limits of what AI can do in accessibility.

Her love affair with shoes started at a young age. Her very first word was the boot. She set off on a journey to bring back the happiness of wearing shoes, all handmade, from her home in a small flat in London. Staying true to what she wants to wear, designs full of joy, a little piece of something different, that you can actually walk in without your feet wanting to faint. You can find my work here https://www.ioanatanase.com/collections/shoes and read her books here: https://www.amazon.com/author/ioanatanase.