Disability Justice Event @ Illinois

Disability Justice Event @ Illinois brings together community advocates, legal experts, students, and scholars for a series of conversations and activities with the goal of advancing equity, access, and inclusion around disability in higher education and beyond. This includes advancing such conversations as self-advocacy and disability rights, intersectionality, invisible disabilities, and encoding normalcy in digital ecologies.

Day One will include a series of talks and panels around disability justice, sharing stories, as well as organizational & infrastructural models for promoting justice moving forward.

Day Two will feature a student-led design journey, where students will both explore and engage with their own ideas around Disability Justice. Students will have the opportunity to collaborate with one another to consider technology’s role in advancing Disability Rights & Disability Justice, as well as innovating new technology roles.