In this new Office of Equity and Inclusion podcast, Dr. Nef Walker interviews some members of the steering committee of the UMass Allies for Illness and Disability Access (UMAIDA). Listen to learn more about UMAIDA and get to know Melinda Lelacheur, Michele Cooke and Samm Delorey.
You can see access the audio podcasts a this link and the video with captions at this link.
Events are supported by a Campus Climate Grant from the UMass Office of Equity and Inclusion to the Alliance Against Ableism. Additional support from the History Department and the UMass Allies for Illness and Disability Access (UMAIDA) employee resource group. Sponsors also include the African American Studies program.
Questions? Please contact the speaker series committee: Rachel Adams, Elodie Carel, Samm Delorey, Kim Enderle and Helene Grogan.
Over the summer we will meet Wednesdays from 4-5 pm. Join the list serve to get email notifications and a link to our meetings. You can also join our AllianceAgainstAbleism slack channel.
To join the listserve go to google groups and search for ‘AAA’. The listserve is named ‘aaa-l’. You can select the group and ask to join.
In October 2020, Dr. Nefertiti Walker interviews Jeff Edelstein and David Paquette from the Alliance Against Ableism (AAA). The AAA aims to hold conversations around disability identity and inclusion, address ableism and barriers to inclusion and equality on campus within the disability community, and incorporate disability into larger systemic conversations
If you prefer to listen to the podcast without video you can hear it at this link.
This article from November 2019 talks about how the Alliance Against Ableism got started by Josh Person and Deanna Ferrante back in February of 2019. See link to article here.