About Precious “Preciosa” Myers-Brown

The Voice of Enabling Technology™ is Precious "Preciosa" Myers-Brown: Tech Equity author, nearly 40 years in IDD, technology and AI for the people the system forgets.

Precious “Preciosa” Myers-Brown, a brown-skinned woman with curly hair and gold hoop earrings, smiles in a brick-coral suit and plum top, leaning against an ivory wall with one heel lifted.

Precious "Preciosa" Myers-Brown is The Voice of Enabling Technology™.

Chief Innovation and Dream Officer™ (CINO) | CEO | Founder of Vista Supports

She writes about technology and artificial intelligence and what they enable a human being to do, with particular attention to the people most systems overlook: people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, older adults, people supported through Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services, and Black and Brown communities that get the technology last, if at all. Her thesis is the reason this site exists: enabling technology is for everyone.

She did not arrive at technology from the outside. She has spent nearly 40 years in intellectual and developmental disability services, and she started where the work starts: as a direct support professional. From there she moved through the field one role at a time, DSP, QIDP, program director, regional director, and then C-suite leadership of a multimillion-dollar IDD organization, where she built the quality assurance systems, the audits, the training and the workforce that kept it running. She was part of the generation of human services leaders who helped build provider communities as people moved out of institutions and into community life. In the early 2000s she built that organization's records system from the Microsoft tools on her desk, moved it from paper to electronic, and in 2009 led its conversion to Therap. She did not learn the business of IDD from the technology side; she brought technology into a business she already knew how to run.

In 2006, a man she supported told her what he wanted: his independence, and her out of his house. She gave him both. She built the first smart home in the DMV for him and called it an assistive technology home for independence, because the disability field had not yet adopted "enabling technology" as the name for this work. She paid for it out of her own pocket, without institutional backing. The technology was never for monitoring. It was so staff could step back and a person could run his own life. That principle shaped what followed: the first remote support center in the DMV, which she and Carl Hernandez built together, and a home of four older women with high medical needs that she and Carl converted into a smart home. In 2018 they began showing visitors how the work was benefiting the four women who lived there, women who for the first time in their lives had full control of their own home, their privacy and their dignity. People said it was not necessary. They did it anyway.

She is the author of Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology (House of CINO), the only operational playbook for this work, reviewed by Kirkus. It is not a manual on assistive technology. It shows how enabling technology breaks down barriers and creates freedom across intellectual and developmental disabilities, Home and Community-Based Services, and services for older adults, told through real stories, most of them set in Black and Brown communities. She created the Enabled Life Model, the Tech Equity Triangle, the Seven Freedoms of Enabling Technology, the Ritmo Framework, and The HAIL Equation™, which puts human intelligence first in any equation that includes artificial intelligence.

She is the first Black woman to found and lead a full-service, end-to-end enabling technology, assistive technology, remote supports, and innovation-first transformation company in the United States. She founded Vista Supports with Carl Hernandez and Steven Simms to do for providers what she had done for people: stand them up. Vista builds a provider's own remote support infrastructure, with human intelligence and continuing support behind it, so the provider holds the capability and stays first to know about the people it supports. As enabling and expanding technology reshapes how people with disabilities and older adults are supported, her work is making sure the providers who know those people best are the ones holding the tools. She also founded WATI Institute, an independent credentialing authority for the enabling technology workforce, and CINO VISTA Consulting, which advises IDD and HCBS leaders on the operational realities of transformation. All of it sits under House of CINO.

Her work was featured in the BBC StoryWorks series The Human Component, highlighted at CES 2024, and in NBC Washington's coverage of DC's disability technology summit during National Disability Employment Awareness Month 2023. The DC Department on Disability Services honored her with its Through My Eyes Champion Award in 2023, and Black Leaders Worldwide has named her a Woman to Watch three years running, in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

She is President of the DC Coalition of Disability Service Providers, where she has served in leadership since 2007, co-chair of the District's Tech First Taskforce alongside DDS leadership, and a Subject Matter Expert on Enabling Technology with DC leadership and provider agencies. She is a board member of the ANCOR Foundation and Techquity, a graduate of the ANCOR Foundation Leadership Academy, an active member of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), a participant in the AARP AgeTech Collaborative, a Founding Member of Baddies in Tech, and a member of RESNA. She is a Chief Digital Officer Executive Scholar through Kellogg Executive Education at Northwestern University, holds the CAPS credential from the National Association of Home Builders, and completed the Assistive Technology Applications Certificate Program at California State University, Northridge (CSUN).

What you will find here

This is her writing home for technology. The questions that run through it: What does this technology enable a person to do? Who gets access to the capacity technology creates? Are we building digital institutions while we congratulate ourselves on closing the physical ones? The community is hybrid now, and digital access is community access. She writes from implementation, not theory, in field language, because exposure comes before fluency and nobody should have to be an expert to enter the conversation. She is an advocate for technology, not a fear merchant: people deserve more power over the technology in their lives, more humans at the table, and human intelligence first. Three threads run here: the essays, Who Told AI That?™, her column on what AI said, did, and tried to pass off, and The Live Wire, the news desk where she explains why a story is news and what it would enable.

She is a product of her own teaching. She writes with pen and paper, dictates hundreds of thousands of words a year through voice technology, runs her businesses on a team of AI agents, and builds her tools around how she actually thinks. Technology should adapt to the human, not the other way around.

Precious splits her life between Washington, DC, New York, and Bogotá, Colombia, and works in English and Spanish. Everything she publishes is written under her own name and filed under one identity, so there is never confusion about who said it. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

"Empowerment and inclusion are not just part of the conversation; they are the conversation." Precious "Preciosa" Myers-Brown

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