**This podcast was recorded using Zoom | May 18, 2022 **

Care access advocates and the co-creators of Hyp-ACCESS, L Tuthall and Audre Wirtanen, discuss hypermobility, the history of eugenics & ableism, and navigating society & medicine for health autonomy.

*Contact*
Website: https://hyp-access.com/
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HypAccess/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hyp_access/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hyp_access

*Resources*
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1008BvRrUgzW1lo0VJTHbgIulDULYkVdR

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**ENCORE: June 9, 2021**

Brenda Hernandez, activista por la justicia reproductiva, Promotora de Salud y Coordinadora de Educación y Difusión en el Centro de Atención de la Universidad de Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), habla sobre el Mes del Orgullo, la relación entre la comunidad LGBTQ + y la comunidad hispana, y como ser un aliado.

**English Translation**
Brenda Hernandez, a reproductive justice activist, a Promotora de Salud, and an Education & Outreach Coordinator at the Care Center of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), discusses Pride Month, the relationship between the  LGBTQ+ community and the Hispanic community, and how to be an ally.

**Resources**
MOCHA Center-Rochester, NY: https://www.trilliumhealth.org/services/the-mocha-center
Black and Latino LGBTQ Coalition- New York, NY: https://gaycenter.org/sponsor/black-and-latino-lgbtq-coalition/
TransLatin@Coalition: https://www.translatinacoalition.org/
Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://marshap.org/

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**This podcast was recorded using Zoom | May 17, 2022 **

Marie Dagenais-Lewis, the Operations Manager at Diversability,  discusses the Diversability Leadership Collective and its community that fosters meaningful connections and offers resources & opportunities to help accelerate disability leadership and influence. 

*Resources*

• Diversability Leadership Collective: https://diversability.mn.co/
• Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Diversability
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/diversability
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Diversability
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diversability/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHR3MGpjxxorkLvIiIK-eXA
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@diversability

• Nucleus Research: https://nucleusresearch.com/research/single/the-internet-is-unavailable/
• The Purple Pound: https://wearepurple.org.uk/the-purple-pound-infographic/#:~:text=The%20Purple%20Pound%20refers%20to,the%20members%20has%20a%20disability.

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**ENCORE: This podcast was recorded using Zoom** | June 4, 2021

DRNY staff attorney, Alison Lynch, discusses mental health and sports culture in a conversation spurred by the recent news of Naomi Osaka, who pulled out of the French Open to care for her own mental health.

**Resources**
https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/31543237/naomi-osaka-withdraws-french-open-one-day-fine-threat-harsher-sanctions-skipping-media-obligations

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**ENCORE: April 14, 2021**

Regina Finelli McLean, patóloga del habla y el lenguaje en Amigo Baby, habla sobre el Programa de Intervención Temprana.

**English Translation**
Regina Finelli McLean, a speech language pathologist at Amigo Baby, discusses the Early Intervention Program.

**Resources**
https://amigobaby.com
DRNY Fact Sheets: https://www.drny.org/page/fact-sheets-36.html

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**ENCORE: This podcast was recorded using Zoom** | April 6, 2021

DRNY's CAP & PABSS program Director and Chair of the Committee on Advancing Racial Equality (C.A.R.E.), Erica Molina, Esq., is joined by Marc Fliedner, Esq., DRNY's PAIR & PAIMI program Director, to discuss what we can do as allies for the Asian and Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.

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ENCORE: **This podcast was recorded on May 5, 2020.**

DRNY staff attorney, Alison Lynch, discusses substance use disorders with a focus on mental illness while addressing the negative misconceptions of substance addiction as well as the laws and bills in development to assist those with substance use disorder.

**Resources**
Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/nyregion/peter-harckham-drug-addiction.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=New%20York

ASAM's definition of "addiction": https://www.asam.org/Quality-Science/definition-of-addiction

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**This podcast was recorded using Zoom | March 28, 2022 **

For a featured episode of "The Director's Chair,"  DRNY's Executive Director, Tim Clune, Esq., is joined by Juan Pablo Salazar, a global disability rights activist and the Inclusion Coordinator for the Latin American Development Bank. Juan Pablo and Tim discuss the current state of disability rights advocacy and where efforts still need to be made today. 

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**This podcast was recorded using Zoom | March 22, 2022 **

Rose Ewald, a self-advocate and PhD student in the Public Health Education department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, discusses health equity for people with disabilities and ableism as a social determinant of health (SDOH). 

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**ENCORE: April 14, 2021**

Mary Brzustowicz, una Navegadora Familiar en el Centro de Autismo de Levine en el Centro Médico de la Universidad de Rochester, habla sobre el Mes de Concienciación sobre el Autismo.

La versión subtitulada y en ASL de este podcast está disponible en el canal de YouTube de DRNY: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4JcJEFJXGgiZwE4zbw2BKg.

**English Translation**
Mary Brzustowicz,  a Family Navigator at Levine Autism Center in the University of Rochester Medical Center, discusses Autism Awareness Month. 

The subtitled and ASL version of this podcast is available on DRNY's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4JcJEFJXGgiZwE4zbw2BKg.

**Resources**
https://www.autismspeaks.org/que-es-el-autismo-espanol
https://www.understood.org/es-mx
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/spanish/autism/treatment.html
https://www.autismspeaks.org/que-es-el-autismo-espanol
autismspeaks.org

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