Session Host

Neil Patel

Neil Patel is a co-founder of JamraPatel, a studio focused on developing fonts and utilities for underrepresented writing systems, primarily from sub-Saharan Africa. He studies the entrenched factors that hinder language communities from leveraging the full benefits of computing and seeks out solutions to technical issues that prevent newly encoded writing systems from functioning well on devices. He provides communities with the necessary fonts, input methods, and transliteration tools to accelerate digital adoption and facilitate the exchange of ideas in their own languages. He holds a B.S. in Microelectronic Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology.

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