Sam Kanta
Principal Accessibility Consultant at The Sustainable Change LLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolSam Kanta is a Principal Accessibility Consultant with 11 years of focused experience helping organizations embed inclusive design across the product lifecycle. He combines cross-functional leadership, deep a11y domain expertise, and advanced mixed-methods user research to shift accessibility left and make inclusion a core product practice. Sam advises and coaches teams from startups to enterprises, builds accessibility programs by example, and drives data-informed decisions that balance user needs with delivery realities. His background spans roles in UX leadership, research, and program management at companies like Northwestern Mutual and HP, and he pairs that with academic training in HCI and organizational change. Based in Milwaukee, he brings a rare blend of pedagogical experience and hands-on consulting—teaching teams how to sustain accessibility rather than just remediate it.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Applied Management & Decision Sciences (Leadership & Organizational Change), 3.84, PhD, Applied Management & Decision Sciences (Leadership & Organizational Change), 3.84 at Walden UniversityMasters of Education, Information Technology, Masters of Education, Information Technology at Charles Sturt UniversityThe University of MelbourneThe University of SydneyGraduate Diploma in Interactive Multimedia, (Human-Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, IT Research Methodology), Graduate Diploma in Interactive Multimedia, (Human-Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, IT Research Methodology) at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
samkanta/pronunciation
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Pronunciation Task Force deliverables
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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samkanta/GettingCleaningData-CourseProject
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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