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Talks, panels, and press on cultural strategy, accessibility, and the craft of being understood.

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Recent talks & panels

2025

The Translation Layer: How Civic Communications Earn Trust

City of Dallas · Keynote → 2025

Designing for Belonging: Accessibility as Cultural Strategy

SXSW · Panel → 2024

When Theatre Becomes Community: Audience-Centered Storytelling

WaterTower Theatre · Conversation → 2024

The Accessibility Communications Index: A Framework Talk

National Disability Conference · Workshop → 2023

Think Out, Be Light: Inclusive Fashion as Cultural Visibility

TEDx · Talk → 2023

Public Messaging for Hard Conversations

Civic Innovation Forum →
02 / Press

Featured coverage

2022

"How a Mompreneur Honors Her Daughter With Down Syndrome"

Forbes ↗ 2020

"Communications Pro Offers Up Some Lessons Learned to Bring a Brand to the Next Level"

Dallas Business Journal ↗ 2022

"'Changed My Life for the Better': What People With Down Syndrome (and Their Families) Wish You Knew"

USA Today ↗ 2022

"The Workforce Needs People With Down Syndrome Now More Than Ever"

TEDx Purdue ↗ 2021

"Feleceia Benton: Lighting the Runway for Models With Down Syndrome"

Dallas Doing Good ↗ 2016

"Family and Sugar Drive This Fierce Dallas Actress"

CultureMap Dallas ↗ 2019

"Local Theater Pays Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 Holiday Album"

Art & Seek ↗ 2019

"Meet Feleceia Benton of Zoe Communications Agency"

Voyage Dallas ↗ 2017

"Meet Feleceia + Zoe, the Entrepreneur Mom and Her Daughter"

Thrive Magazine ↗ 2018

"Feleceia Benton Towers Memorably as the Kind-Hearted but Commanding Theater Matron"

Theater Jones ↗ 2020

"Raising Girls With Special Needs"

Leading Girls Podcast · Ep 21 ↗ 2019

Episode #46 — Feleceia Benton

Polished Podcast ↗
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