Session: Disability and Accessibility at Yale

Name: Session: Disability and Accessibility at Yale
Start: 2021-11-15T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2021-11-15T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Session: Disability and Accessibility at Yale

11.15.21 | 12pm–1pm

YSC Session: Disability and Accessibility at Yale over Fay Icons

Our first ever in-person Session

November 15, 2021 | 12pm–1pm |

Yale Schwarzman Center

Instructions

Please sign up for the waitlist if you are interested. We will run a lottery to promote four people to participate in person once registration closes on Thursday, November 11 at 4pm. The rest of the group will be invited to a virtual convening to continue with the discussion. You will be notified via email by Thursday November 11, 11:59pm on whether you will be attending the Session in person. Exact location given to those selected to attend in person

This event will take place in a wheelchair accessible space. Registrants can request additional accommodations/services if required.

Please join Yale Schwarzman Center for a roundtable lunch conversation about Disability and Accessibility at Yale. At the table will be undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff who share a goal to create a growing community of activists and researchers whose work intersects with or is grounded in Disability Studies. The goal of the Session is to foster conversation among those who are actively implementing or thinking of how to address accessibility and inclusion around disability within the Yale community.

Session Hosts:

Emily Yankowitz, PhD Candidate in the Department of History.
Kenya Loudd, Second year PhD Student in the Department of History of Science & Medicine. and the Department of African American Studies. Kenya's research, on a large scale, examines and probes the historical and contemporary Black Diasporic Experience with Disability.

About YSC Sessions
YSC Sessions invite you into conversation with thought leaders in creative fields, bringing people into dialogue to inspire fresh ideas over a meal.

On confidentiality:
Sessions are safe spaces to gather and exchange diverse perspectives over shared interests. We ask everyone to respect the confidentiality of the conversation and of your fellow Sessionists. For press requests related to YSC Sessions, please contact Director of Marketing & Communications Maurice Harris at maurice.harris@yale.edu.

On COVID safety:
Proof of vaccination (CDC Vaccination Card, photograph of the card, or MyChart vaccination status confirmation) and Yale ID required.