Briana Gilmore
Accomplished Disability Policy Leader Briana Gilmore
Briana Gilmore has worked as Uber's Head of Global Accessibility Policy since 2022. Before joining Uber, she spent four years as a policy and strategy consultant in the technology, government, and non-profit sectors, preceded by more than three years as the director of policy and planning at Community Access, a public health and supportive housing agency in NYC. During her time as a consultant, Briana worked with biotech companies designing products for users with mental health challenges, and policymakers on Supportive Housing and harm reduction solutions. During this time Briana also championed Peer Crisis Respite centers in California, training direct peer care workers in suicide prevention and deescalation, in addition to contributing to designing the statewide certification process for Peer Specialists. The achievement she's most proud of during this time is the year she intermittently lived alongside her unhoused neighbors on the streets of Oakland, as they occupied city land to build women-centered tiny-home communities that offered on-site medical and education resources for inhabitants.
In her current role at Uber, Ms. Gilmore oversees aging and disability strategy, which includes the coordination of local and global partnerships. Her responsibilities include co-designing effective self-identification and accessibility preference features with external experts and users, and aligning UXR with internal teams and business objectives. In 2025, she drove project-cycle management across Uber's policy, communications, and marketing division for the launch of the company’s Senior Account and Simple Mode products.
Briana Gilmore graduated with honors from both her undergraduate and graduate studies. At Hofstra University she was an assistant teacher in International Politics, and at the University of Amsterdam she led a cross-discipline feminist economics study and resource group. Beyond her professional activities, Ms. Gilmore is a published poet and ongoing contributor to disability rights pedagogy, as both an adjunct professor at various colleges and universities and in the promotion of open-platform curriculum development for critical disability studies.
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