About Trish Kelly
Trish is a purpose-driven leader with a passion for accessible leadership and more than two decades’ experience helping organizations operationalize their social goals. Before launching Untapped Accessibility, she held senior leadership positions in organizations including Accessible Employers, Potluck Café, and Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
Trish’s knowledge of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility is informed by her experience as a leader in socially responsible organizations and as a justice-focused advocate in the community. She is a proud member of the 2SLGBTIA+ community and a child of a disabled parent. She is a citizen of the Métis Nation of BC with family ties back to the Carleton and Prince Albert communities in Saskatchewan.
Trish has been recognized for her community leadership as a Female Food Hero by Oxfam Canada and was nominated for a 2025 YWCA Women of Distinction Award.
Untapped Accessibility
Trish Kelly
Since its launch in October 2022, Untapped Accessibility has become a leading Canadian accessibility consulting firm. As a certified social enterprise, Untapped has a dual purpose: to generate revenue for the Open Door Social Services Society and to create work opportunities for professionals with disabilities.
Trish launched Untapped soon after the passing of the Accessible BC Act and the Accessible Canada Act. Trish saw a market opportunity to help regulated organizations interpret and operationalize the requirements in the legislation. She believed that an accessibility consulting firm rooted in a modern understanding of disability and spotlighting the expertise of disabled professionals could offer fresh, powerful solutions to accessibility barriers.
Informed by the social model of disability, Untapped’s approach centres flexibility, individual choice, and a proactive approach to barrier removal that improves experiences for people with apparent and non-apparent disabilities.
Untapped has already supported over 225 organizations including nonprofit, public sector, and private sector organizations to create truly inclusive experiences for employees and the communities they serve.
Led by Trish, the Untapped team is a living example of accessibility principles in action. The majority of hours on any project are contributed by professionals with disabilities or chronic illness. To date, professionals with disabilities have contributed over 15,000 hours of their expertise to client projects. Untapped is also a certified Living Wage Employer.
