Charley and Mai-Anh speak to Asian-American disability rights advocate Tiffany Yu, who was incredibly generous with her wisdom regarding advocacy, allyship, and how we can all work to improve accessibility. We could have listened to her speak for hours! Listen to find out how she maintains joy i her advocacy work, why allyship to her must be rooted in intimacy, and how she keeps up the marathon relay that is the fight for justice for Disability communities.

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Pod for the Cause host Ashley Allison welcomes Vilissa Thompson, creator of #DisabilityTooWhite and founder of RampYourVoice, to discuss how disability rights are civil rights -- and how we should all hold each other accountable for disability discrimination, both within the movement and our lives. Thompson makes the case for why we should all speak up about the intersection of racism and disability rights.

People with disabilities represent 15% of the global population but are often left out of diversity initiatives, programs, surveys, and even basic conversations about workplace inclusion. Recent research from Global Disability inclusion and Mercer on the engagement gap of employees with disabilities shows a difference in some areas of up to 13% lower than non-disabled colleagues.

So with many employers seeking to do better with equity, inclusion and belonging, what can they be doing to address this problem.

To help us get some more insights into the issues, my guests this week are the research report authors Meg O’Connell, CEO & Founder of Global Disability Inclusion and Pete Rutigliano, Senior Principal at Mercer.

In the interview, we discuss:

   •   The State of Disability Employee Engagement Study

   •   Employer attitudes to disabilities

   •   Attitudinal barriers and dispelling myths

   •   Research methodology and scope

   •   Reasons for the engagement gap

   •   The employee experience for people with disabilities

   •   Building the right level of trust to allow people to be themselves

   •   Hidden disabilities

   •   The benefits of inclusion

   •   Lessons from the pandemic

   •   Hopes and predictions for the coming years

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The term “neurodiversity” seems to be everywhere right now. But what exactly does it mean? Hosts Amanda Morin and Gretchen Vierstra talk with Emily Kircher-Morris to find out. Emily is a neurodivergent parent to twice-exceptional kids. And she’s the host of The Neurodiversity Podcast. Listen in to hear Emily’s unique perspective on neurodiversity. 

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• All about twice-exceptional students
• The Neurodiversity Podcast
• Teaching Twice-Exceptional Learners in Today’s Classrooms
• Raising Twice-Exceptional Children

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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced healthcare systems to make decisions about how to ration medical treatments – and many have chosen to explicitly de-prioritize people for these treatments based on pre-existing disabilities. Professor Samuel Bagenstos and attorney Alison Barkoff join us to talk about their work on COVID-19 medical rationing advocacy and what lessons we can take away from how this issue has played out.

To learn more about this topic, take a look at Professor Samuel Bagenstos’s Essay, Who Gets the Ventilator? Disability Discrimination in COVID-19 Medical-Rationing Protocols, recently published in the Yale Law Journal Forum.

In December 1995, the first disability rights legislation was passed by India's parliament. An estimated 60 million people, almost six percent of India's population, are affected by physical or mental disabilities. Farhana Haider spoke to Javed Abidi who led the campaign to change the law.

Photo: Disability rights campaigners protest in Delhi, December 19th 1995. (Credit: Javed Abidi)

Phillipa Vincent-Connolly explores the lives of disabled people in the Tudor era. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, she uncovers complex attitudes to disability in the period, and reveals how some disabled figures played key roles at the royal court.

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