Disability Bias
Guests: Wil Vargas and Bill Welsh
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Our panel joins Dr. Joan Collier to discuss disability bias and share resources to help build more inclusive spaces.
Wil Vargas, MSW, LCSW (she/they) is interested in working with students, staff, faculty, and administrators from all backgrounds. Her passion is in providing clinical services that are affirming and empowering to minorities such as first-generation immigrants, international, and especially individuals and groups along the LGBTQIA continuum. Mina is a charter member of RSH Excellence in Transcare Services that works to develop and provide best practice services for our gender-expansive students.
Bill Welsh (he/him) is the associate vice president of Rutgers Access and Disability Resources.
Resources
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Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn't, she'd like to make clear, automatically turn her into a noble inspiration to all humanity.
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As buzzwords like social justice, equity, and inclusion permeate our collective consciousness, it’s essential for advocates of progress to remember another ‘ism,’ one that is frequently left out of conversations.
Ableism.
The world wasn’t built with people with disabilities in mind, and because of that, the world we live in is inherently “ableist.”