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The recording of the second 2024 Odyssey webinar, “The Principles of Disability Justice,” held Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, is now available. You can watch The Principles of Disability Justice recording on YouTube through Oct. 16, 2024.
Description
Patty Berne, co-founder and executive and artistic director of Sins Invalid, and Terri L. Wilder, MSW, presented this 90-minute webinar on disability justice. The webinar was designed for policymakers, health providers and program developers. Presenters with lived experience led the session. After watching the recording, you will be able to:
- Explain the differences among the medical, social and disability justice models to foster more inclusive environments.
- Describe the 10 principles of disability justice and their critical role in promoting equity.
- Explore the intersectionality of disability with other social identities (e.g., race, age, gender, sexual orientation) and identify how these intersections disproportionately impact people with disabilities, especially people of color with disabilities.
- Apply practical strategies and disability justice principles in advocacy work and everyday life.
Continuing education
CEU credits are not available for watching the webinar recording.
Cost
The recording is free to watch.
About the presenters
Patty Berne is the co-founder and executive and artistic director of Sins Invalid, which is a disability justice-based performance project, centralizing people of color, queer people and gender non-conforming people with disabilities. Berne’s graduate training in clinical psychology focused on trauma and healing for survivors of interpersonal and state violence. Her professional background includes community organizing within the Haitian diaspora, internationally supporting the Guatemalan democratic movement, offering mental health support to survivors of interpersonal violence and advocating for LGBTQI and disability perspectives in reproductive genetic technologies. Berne’s experience as a Japanese-Haitian queer woman with a disability provides grounding for her work creating “liberated zones” for marginalized people. They are widely recognized for their work to establish the framework and praxis of disability justice.
Terri L. Wilder, MSW, is a social worker and activist for the rights of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), long COVID and HIV. Since 1989, she has worked in public health providing social services, coordinating education for clients and medical providers, managing volunteer-led programs and advocating for policy change. She has presented at local, national and international conferences on a variety of health topics. Wilder was diagnosed with ME in March 2016. Since her diagnosis, she has worked with elected officials, public health departments, health care providers and activists to raise awareness and change policy across the globe. She was finishing her PhD in sociology at Georgia State University when she became ill. However, she believes she has had the disease since 1996. She has years of experience working with #MEAction and has represented the organization on the federal Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) and during National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) meetings. She uses the skills she learned from the HIV movement and the LGBTQ+ community to fight for the ME and long COVID communities. Wilder served as the co-leader of #MEAction New York for several years. She is currently the chair of #MEAction Minnesota.
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