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In the first installation of this podcast series, meet the 91探花ADA Coordinator, Bree Callahan! In this brief discussion with Bree, she delves into the role, function, and importance of the Office of the ADA Coordinator in ensuring accessibility and inclusion for the 91探花tri-campus and medical system.

Meet 91探花graduate and disability advocate, Toby Gallant! In this episode of the Access 91探花series, Toby converses with Bree Callahan to provide clarity on the accommodation processes for staff, students, faculty, and visitors with disabilities at the UW.

Resources referenced in the podcast:

• CRC Investigations
• Grievance and Dispute Resolution Resources

Meet socio-legal scholar and 91探花faculty member, Heather Evans! In this episode of AccessUW, Bree interviews disability advocates, Heather and Toby, on how disability is a critical facet of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Resources referenced in this podcast:

• 鈥� Mia Mingus鈥� Article
• 鈥� Christine Lew鈥檚 Research

Explore the rich and resilient history of disability activism at the 91探花, Seattle campus. In this episode, a recently endowed Disability Studies scholar and graduate, Toby Gallant, highlights their capstone research titled 鈥淏reaking Barriers: A 50-Year Archival History of Disabled Resilience at the UW-Seattle.鈥�

Meet disabled historian, researcher, and scholar, Dr. Jaipreet Virdi! In this episode of AccessUW, we get to sit down with Dr. Virdi to reflect on her Public Lecture at the UW, her work as a disabled historian, and the importance of the historic slogan 鈥淣othing About Us Without Us.鈥�

Resources referenced in this podcast:

• Dr. Virdi鈥檚 91探花Public Lecture Recording听
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In this episode, we dive deeper into the past, present, and future of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, marking its 50th anniversary. ADA Coordinator Bree Callahan and Disability Studies Professor Heather Evans delve into the law鈥檚 history. They discuss the challenges in its implementation, the role of disability rights activists, and the law鈥檚 ongoing importance, particularly in shaping discussions around inclusion and digital accessibility in higher education.

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In this episode, we are joined by Katie Warden, Director of NW ADA Center, and Elizabeth Pendo, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Law, to explore the differences and intersections between the Disability Rights and Disability Justice movements. Drawing on their extensive legal expertise, they shed light on the limitations of anti-discrimination laws in tackling compounded forms of oppression and underscore the crucial role of intersectionality in understanding the experiences of individuals with disabilities.

Resources referenced in this podcast:

• Learn more about the Disability Rights Movement:
• Learn more about the Disability Justice Movement:

In this episode, we remember the co-founder of the 91探花Disability Studies Program and a tremendous disability advocate: Dennis Lang. Joined by Disability Studies Professors, Dr. Joanne Woiak and Dr. Sara Goering, this podcast highlights the impact of Dennis鈥� legacy on advocating for the community , developing the Disability Studies Program, and creating accessible and inclusive curriculum in the classroom.

Resources referenced in this episode:

• Dennis Lang: The Activist Behind Disability Studies at the UW

This podcast episode features a discussion with three former directors of the 91探花Disability Resources for Students (DRS) office in Seattle. They reflect together on the evolution of the office, starting with minimal staff and resources in the mid-90s to developing a more robust service delivery in the early 2000s.

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To kick off Season 2 of the podcast, this episode discusses the new federal regulation on digital accessibility under Title II of the ADA. These regulations mandate public institutions to ensure that their web content and mobile applications, including course content, is accessible. Introducing the new Deputy ADA Coordinator for Digital Accessibility, we discuss the resources and tools to help assist in this digital transformation.

Resources referenced in the podcast:

• About the ADA Rule听
• ADA Digital Accessibility Initiative听
• What You Can Do Now听
• 91探花Access Technology Services听

This episode discusses the ADAt鈥檚 protections and implications on employment. Katie Warden, Director of the Northwest ADA Center, defines the ADA鈥檚 definition for disability, reasonable accommodations, and the interactive process. Listen or read to learn more about when to disclose a disability and the rights of individuals with disabilities in the workplace.

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This episode discusses in detail the service animal policy at the 91探花 to ensure that handlers and University personnel are aware of their rights and responsibilities. Specifically, this podcast highlights the updates to this policy made in fall 2024 to expand the handler鈥檚 responsibilities and rights for service animals in training at the UW.

Resources referenced in the podcast:

• CRC’s Service Animal Guidance Page听

This episode discusses听 the UW鈥檚 efforts in 2019 to re-establish comprehensive transitions to ensure the UW鈥檚 built environments are accessible for individuals with disabilities. Joined by our Campus Planner, this episode highlights the work completed over the past six years and what is to come in the next five years.

Resources referenced in the podcast:

• Transition Plans听
• Report a Physical Barrier

This episode explores the journey of the Campus Climate survey, from its development, stakeholder feedback, and launch, to of the results. Jillian Morn, Director of听 91探花Institutional Assessment & Evaluation , emphasizes the survey鈥檚 critical role in capturing the University鈥檚 sense of belonging. This podcast emphasizes the focus placed on disability stakeholder feedback, highlighting accessibility as a foundational aspect of the survey鈥檚 design and question formulation.

Resources referenced in the podcast:

• 91探花Campus Climate Survey听
• 91探花Institutional Assessment & Evaluation

This episode discusses website accessibility and resources at the 91探花, in honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Terril Thompson,听 Manager for IT Accessibility Services, joins the hosts to discuss听 the importance of accessible web design, including proper heading structures, alt-text for images, and descriptive link text. He also introduces enterprise-wide website accessibility checker and training opportunities to support developing and maintaining accessible web content.

Resources referenced in the podcast:

• 91探花Global Accessibility Awareness Day听
• 91探花Accessibility Technology Services听
• Website Accessibility Guidance听
  • Archive Banner听
  • Headings on Websites
  • Images on Websites听
  • Links & Buttons on Websites听
• Dubbot Website Accessibility Checker听
• Deque University Courses on Digital Accessibility听

This podcast discusses the importance of digital accessibility in course content. Institutional Accessibility Specialist Mary-Colleen Jenkins emphasizes the need for digital accessibility in courses for all students, including those with and without disabilities. She highlights common barriers that tend to be easy fixes and the benefits of using Canvas鈥� built-in accessibility checkers to ensure sustainable, accessible content.

Resources referenced in the podcast:

• 91探花Global Accessibility Awareness Day听
• 91探花Accessibility Technology Services听
• Starting an Accessibility Journey: 5 Easy Steps听
• Canvas Accessibility Checkers听

The episode explores how the 91探花 supports students with disabilities who are transitioning from college to employment, highlighting the challenges in accessing career services and internships. Briana Randall and Travis Hyde emphasize the impact of partnerships among the Career Center, Disability Resources for Students, and Gregory S. Fehribach Center in expanding paid internship opportunities and increasing employer awareness.

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To wrap up season 2 of AccessUW, we invited accessibility champions in the 91探花Libraries to discuss how they are leading efforts to improve physical and digital accessibility for all patrons. Elliot Stevens, Hana Leavy, and Kimanthi Warren join us to discuss the successes of their Accessibility Working Group and the libraries response to the Department of Justice’s Title II rule on digital accessibility.

Resources Referenced in this Podcast:

• 鈥� A poem by Leroy F. Moore Jr., a Black writer, poet, hip-hop music lover, community activist, and feminist with a physical disability.
• 鈥� An online literary journal that publishes poetry and art by D/deaf and/or disabled writers and artists.
• 鈥� An article by Disability Justice advocate Lydia X. Z. Brown on the significance of semantics and identity-first language.
• 鈥� A blog from Vilissa Thompson, a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) from Winnsboro, SC. Vilissa is the Founder & CEO of Ramp Your Voice!, an organization focused on promoting self-advocacy and strengthening empowerment among disabled people.

• 鈥� A national network run by autistic people,empowering autistic people across the world to take control of their own lives and the future of their common community to ensure their voices are heard.
• 鈥� An online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.Created by disabled activist, writer, editor, media maker, and consultant, Alice Wong.
• 鈥� A disabled-led production company and arts and culture organization focused on creating public art events that cultivate and communicate a disability culture.
• 鈥� A global, intersectional community of disabled creators and allies working in the media to build a more inclusive, accessible, and equitable entertainment industry.
• 鈥� A worldwide association of hip-hop artists with disabilities that serves as a cultural, activist, and inclusive platform for marginalized voices, especially those of听 Black and Disabled people.
• 鈥� A Disability Justice-based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, featuring artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists who have been historically marginalized. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid鈥檚 performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment, and the disabled body with provocative works that challenge the paradigms of 鈥渘ormal鈥� and 鈥渟exy鈥澨� and offer instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all bodies and communities.
• 鈥� The leading international professional organization for disability studies which seeks to advance an understanding of disability as a cultural, social, and political phenomenon and strives for a critical interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to scholarly inquiry in solidarity with grassroots disability movements.

• [32mins] 鈥� A short film covering a performance project that celebrates artists with disabilities, featuring artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists.
• [9mins] 鈥� Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair鈥攁 fact that doesn鈥檛, as she鈥檇 like to make clear, automatically turn her into a noble inspiration to all humanity. In this very funny talk, Young breaks down society鈥檚 habit of turning disabled people into 鈥渋nspiration porn.鈥�

• 鈥� In celebration of disability pride month, this episode of the Heumann Perspective Podcasts asks its viewers what disability pride means to them, and highlights responses from around the world.

• 鈥� From Harriet McBryde Johnson鈥檚 account of her debate with Peter Singer over her personhood to original pieces by authors such as Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to congressional testimonies and beyond鈥� this anthology offers a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience. It highlights the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community and invites readers to question their own understanding. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the present and looks to the past and the future with hope and love.
• 鈥� An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the ADA.
• 鈥� With a poet鈥檚 devotion to truth and an activist鈥檚 demand for justice, Eli unspools the multiple histories from which our sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home. Here, readers will find an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance.
• 鈥� Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances.
• 鈥� From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.
• 鈥� The title is an A.S.L. expression meaning 鈥渟eriously鈥� or 鈥渞eal talk.鈥� This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, the novel unveils an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.
• 鈥� From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project and the editor of the acclaimed anthology Disability Visibility, a groundbreaking memoir in essays offers a glimpse into an activist鈥檚 journey to find and cultivate community and her continued fight for disability justice.

• 鈥� A brief article by Mia Mingus discussing the deep sense of comfort, trust, and connection that arises from disabled individuals who share similar accessibility needs or lived experiences.
• 鈥� A series of original essays on the past, present, and future of Disability Rights and Justice by disabled BIPOC writers in honor of the 30th anniversary of the passage of the ADA.
• 鈥� A brief article by Mia Mingus discussing how our communities can move beyond access to wholeness through principles of Disability Justice.
• 鈥斕� A research and practice center driving disability innovation for a fairer world. Operating in 41 countries with more than 70 partners, the center has听 reached 29 million people since launching in 2016. The Hub highlights disability innovation news and recurring blog posts.
• 鈥� A blog by Mia Mingus, a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. She is a queer, physically disabled Korean transracial-and-transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean. She works for community, interdependence, and home for all of us鈥攏ot just some of us鈥� and longs for a world where disabled children can live free of violence, with dignity and love
• 鈥� A brief blog post defining and understanding what 鈥渏ustice鈥� means in the context of disability services, advocacy, and studies.
• 鈥� A resource highlighting the seven principles of universal design, the history behind it, and the benefits to users, companies, organizations, and society as a whole
• 鈥� An op-ed discussing how social justice activism is not always accessible or built for members of the disability and d/Deaf communities.
• 鈥� Learn the 10 foundational principles of the Disability Justice movement, a new disability framework that has evolved and improved on the Disability Rights movement.

• [26 mins] 鈥� The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben champions equal access to information for people with disabilities, which has earned her recognitions from both President Obama and President Clinton. Haben shares how designing with accessibility in mind benefits not just users with disabilities, but developers, too. Throughout history, disability has sparked innovation, leading to breakthroughs in wide-ranging inventions from keyboards to telephones.
• [5 mins] 鈥� Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern present a social model of disability, explaining how adopting universal design, incorporating adaptive devices, and meeting people鈥檚 access needs can limit the social, economic, and physical barriers that render physical impairments disabling in an ableist society.
• [58 mins] 鈥� A panel of neurodivergent academics and employees at the 91探花discusses how to be an ally to neurodivergent people in the workplace. Produced by the WholeU.
• [6 mins] 鈥� What is universal design? In this episode of Power On, 鈥淧rofessor鈥� Rafael Siegel takes you to Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, California鈥� to teach the 7 Principles of Universal Design. Learn how to create buildings and interiors for people with disabilities, people who use wheelchairs, and鈥� everybody!
• [10 mins] 鈥� A TEDTalk by Deaf presenter and Gallaudet graduate, Michael Nesmith, on the importance of Universal Design.
• [14 mins] 鈥� Marion Quirici discusses disability access as a civil rights issue, and shares how student activism can make change on college campuses.

• 鈥� Dr. Kendi sits down with Disability Justice advocate, Rebecca Cokley, for a frank conversation on the intersections of ableism and racism in America, the historic civil rights legislation governing both, and what we can all do to advocate for a better future for people with disabilities.
• 鈥� Join Judy Heumann, an internationally recognized bad-ass disability activist in conversation with disabled changemakers and their allies. For all fighting for social justice, these conversations around disability culture, art, entertainment, policy and advocacy are sure to light a rebellious fire under you to fight harder for all people.
• 鈥� The Accessible Stall is a disability podcast hosted by Kyle Khachadurian and Emily Ladau that keeps it real about issues within the disability community. Because they each have different disabilities and mobility levels, they approach topics with two unique viewpoints, offering their listeners a fresh insight into how differences in disability can color experiences and perspectives. They are not afraid听 to speak their minds,听 even if they go against the grain of the disability community at large.
• 鈥� Disability is messy, political, and not palatable, and intersects at every identity. This podcast examines those intersections and their nuances.

• 鈥� In their new collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and Disability Justice activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of Disability Justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, offering knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, that celebrates the work of sick and disabled queer/people of color to find each other and build power and community. It is a toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient communities of liberation where no one is left behind.
• 鈥� Kafai explores the art-activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming bodyminds of color can do: rewriting oppression and gifting us with transformational lessons for our collective survival.
• 鈥� Through their in-depth articulation of Deaf Gain, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume approach deafness as a distinct way of being鈥攐ne that opens perceptions, perspectives, and insights less common to the majority of hearing persons. By framing deafness in terms of its intellectual, creative, and cultural benefits, 鈥淒eaf Gain鈥� recognizes physical and cognitive differences as vital to human diversity.
• 鈥� An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more accessible, inclusive place.
• 鈥� The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage. Haben defines disability as an opportunity for innovation. She learned non-visual techniques for everything from dancing salsa to handling an electric saw. She developed a text-to-braille communication system that created an exciting new way to connect with people. Haben pioneered her way through obstacles and Harvard Law, and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities.
• 鈥� Price explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in U.S. higher education. Much of the research and teaching within disability studies assume a disabled body but a rational and energetic (an 鈥渁gile鈥�) mind. In Mad at School, scholar and disabilities activist Margaret Price asks: How might our education practices change if we understood disability to incorporate the disabled mind?

• Anti-Racism and DEI&B in the Workplace
• DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology)
• IT Accessibility Liaisons

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