What's Up WID

Kenyan WID Fellow Angeline Akai-Lodi is discussing her experiences as a Blind woman living in Kenya and how she hopes to use the knowledge she has gained from working with WID to continue to advocate for people with disabilities.

Disability Rights Activist Emily Ladau is discussing her new book “Demystifying  Disability” and the importance of allyship for the disability community.

Dustin Gibson, Access, Disability, and Language Justice Coordinator at PeoplesHub discusses the disability justice framework, the origins of ableism and its interconnectedness to other systems of oppression.

Photographer and disability activist Tom Olin is discussing the role of artists in disability activism and the importance of community organizing.

Nikki Brown Booker, Program Officer for the Disability Inclusion Fund at Borealis Philanthropy is discussing her experiences as a Black and Filipino woman with a disability and the intersectionality between racism and ableism.

Damian Gregory, founder of the South Florida-based organization Nothing About Us Without Us is discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the lives of people with disabilities and how we can take what we’ve learned from the pandemic to create a society that is more inclusive of people with disabilities.

Disability activist and founder of the nonprofit Mexican Women With Disabilities Maryangel García-Ramos discusses the lack of disability representation in the media.

Join us for a special edition of What's Up WID, celebrating the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Olivia Babis, the Senior Public Policy Analyst at Disability Rights Florida and Sarah Goldman, the Director of Administration and Youth Initiatives at the Florida Independent Living Council discuss why although major strides have been made, the fight for disability rights and justice is far from over. 

Kamilah Martin-Proctor, former Vice-Chair on President Obama‘s National Council on Disability and Founder of the Martin Multiple Sclerosis Alliance Foundation (MMSAF) is discussing how unconscious bias affects people with disabilities and why people with disabilities fear going "back to normal."

Global Disability Inclusion Strategist Debra Ruh is discussing why businesses, corporations and governments need to prioritize disability inclusion.