For decades, technology in disability and aging services has been treated as an operational add-on, a tool for efficiency or risk management. A new book argues that framing misses the point entirely. “Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology” positions assistive and enabling technology not as convenience, but as a fundamental civil right.
Written by Precious “Preciosa” Myers-Brown, The Voice of Enabling Technology™, a three-decade veteran of the intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) field, the book is the first comprehensive operational guide focused entirely on enabling technology for IDD and aging services. It is built not on theory, but on lived experience. Myers-Brown started as a frontline worker and went on to become the first woman of color to found a full-service enabling technology and remote supports company in the United States.
That company, Vista Supports LLC, is both minority-owned and minority-led. It reflects what Myers-Brown calls a “new model for how care infrastructure gets built,” one in which the people designing systems have a personal stake in how those systems serve real communities.
Four Frameworks for Real Implementation
The book does not catalog tools or review products. Instead, it introduces four proprietary frameworks intended for real-world deployment: the Enabled Life Model™, the Tech Equity Triangle™, the Seven Freedoms of ET™, and the Ritmo Framework™. Together, they give disability and aging service providers a structured method for implementing technology that expands autonomy and freedom rather than simply meeting compliance standards.
Myers-Brown’s argument is direct: systems in these sectors have been built on compliance rather than possibility. The result has been a persistent gap between what technology can offer and what vulnerable populations actually receive. Many systems in this field still operate under regulatory frameworks established in 1988, long before modern technology became widely available. Myers-Brown’s book directly confronts that gap. Her book is an effort to close that gap with frameworks grounded in values and designed for execution.
Recognition and Leadership Across Sectors
Myers-Brown’s career extends well beyond authorship. She serves as Chief Innovation and Dream Officer of Vista Supports LLC, President of the DC Coalition of Disability Service Providers, Co-Chair of the DC Technology Committee, and holds board positions with the ANCOR Foundation and TechQuity. She is also a participant in the AARP AgeTech Collaborative and a member of the Consumer Technology Association.
Her work was featured in the BBC StoryWorks documentary The Human Component, and she was named to Black Leaders Worldwide Women to Watch in both 2024 and 2025. She presented on the mainstage at BaddieCon 2025 as a Founding Baddie+ member on the panel “Purposeful Pixels: The Power of Tech in Social Change.” Most recently, she joined Cornell Tech professor Thijs Roumen, BI Collaborative CEO Scott Bachik, and YAI Chief Strategy Officer Ravi Dahiya on the panel “AI in I/DD: Possibilities” at the NJACP conference in March 2026, exploring artificial intelligence as a tool for expanding independence and accessible futures for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Myers-Brown is also the founder of the WATI Institute™ (Workforce Advancement Through Innovation), a national initiative dedicated to scaling the enabling technology workforce by attracting a new generation of professionals who may not have seen themselves in the field, while helping today’s caregivers and direct support professionals recognize how their natural and generational talents are essential to the future of care. It is her dream that as services and supports evolve through innovation, the workforce evolves with them, so that the people closest to the work are not left behind as the field advances.
Published by House of CINO, “Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology” is positioned as both a critique and a bridge. It does not reject what came before, but it does demand something better. Myers-Brown’s goal is to help modernize care infrastructure so that it reflects the full humanity of the people it serves. In her view, anything less is not just a missed opportunity. It is a failure of the inclusive hope and possibility that should define the future of care and community inclusion for everyone.
