Author: asoria
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Black History Month: Kid Cudi
Happy Monday all, Today we continue our celebration of Black History Month and Black Disability Activism. Today I express appreciation for the high profile Black artists who are seeking to change the climate and stigma for persons with mental health disabilities by sharing their own experiences with mental health disabilities and advocating for systemic change. Highlighted…
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Black History Month: Haben Girma
Good morning, We are celebrating Black History Month and highlighting Black Disability activists and their civil rights contributions. Today we celebrate the work of Haben Girma: Disability Rights lawyer, speaker, consultant, and activist. The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma is a human rights lawyer advancing disability justice. President Obama named…
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Black History Month!
February is Black History Month! We will be highlighting impactful Black disability activists and advocates throughout the month. Today we will highlight a Bay Area Black Disability activist, Brad Lomax. Lomax became a key figure in the disability rights movement when he joined more than 100 people in 1977 in occupying the fourth-floor offices of…
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Halloween and Halloween Weekend
Halloween is just around the corner and we know many of you will celebrate on campus and in the community. We encourage everyone to have a plan to stay safe for Halloween and to look after one another. Please also choose your costume thoughtfully: Remember cultural, ethnic, and religious identities are not costumes. For many, wearing a…
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Welcoming Karen Nielson, Our New Disability Resource Center Director
It is with tremendous excitement that we introduce the newest member of our Student Success and Equity team: Karen Nielson. Yesterday, Karen began her tenure as the director of our Disability Resource Center. Karen comes to us from UC Berkeley. There she served as the executive director of the Disabled Student’s Program and Disability Cultural…
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Update on Payan v. LACCD
Your advocacy worked! Thank you to Paul Grossman and all of you who made your voices heard! Many of you joined us on January 31 for Paul Grossman’s webinar about the potential for serious damage to the ADA in a legal case brought by several blind students against the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). We are…
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Payan v. LACCD
In case you missed it, ADA expert Paul Grossman joined nearly 1,000 AHEAD members for a 45-minute webinar to talk about an important pending case, and what you can do to help prevent it from stripping the ADA rights from all Americans. There is a lawsuit pending that could have serious ramifications for disabled people…