by Kayley Whalen | Nov 17, 2020 | Blog, Latest News, Self Direction Spotlight
Last month, Lateef McLeod, Alliance Board member, performed in the show “We Love Like Barnacles: Crip Lives in Climate Chaos” by disability justice group Sins Invalid to a virtual audience of over 800 people. The show focused on the intersection between climate...
by Kayley Whalen | Oct 10, 2020 | Blog, Latest News, Self Direction Spotlight
Our board member DJ Savarese conducted this interview with Caroline Signore about how self-directing her services has helped he have a successful career and live her best life. Caroline has been in my life as a chosen aunt and mentor since I was 6. I opted to...
by Kayley Whalen | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog, Latest News
Intersectionality: (n) the interconnected nature of social categorizations such asrace, class, gender or gender expansion and disability as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or...
by Kayley Whalen | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog, Latest News
New board members (from top left): Anita Cameron, Lateed McLeod, Kyla Mundwiller, Priya Penner, and Edward Willard We are so pleased to welcome a diverse and dynamic slate of new board members! The majority of our five new members are disabled and/or people of color....
by Kayley Whalen | Jul 25, 2020 | Blog, Latest News
We acknowledge and honor the leaders who persisted, protested and ultimately succeeded in driving significant social change through the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. The founders and Board of the Alliance seek to build an organization that...
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