Charting the Way Forward
Strengthening Disability Awareness and Advocacy within the African American Community
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- Event Title: Charting the Way Forward: Strengthening Disability Awareness and Advocacy within the African American Community
- Date: Saturday, February 24, 2024
- Time: 11:00am-2:00pm (Eastern Standard Time)/ Virtual Doors Open at 11:00am EST/ Event Starts at 11:30am EST
- Location: Zoom
- Duration: 3 hours
- Event Description: Panel discussions featuring veteran Black advocates with life experience from diverse range of disabilities discussing the need for Black leaders to help fight for better outcomes for everyone.
Event Sponsors
In Kind Promotional Supporters
- Gallaudet University Center for Black Deaf Studies
- NAACP Arlington Branch
- National Black Deaf Advocates NYC Chapter
- National Black Deaf Advocates DC Chapter
- National Alliance of Black Interpreters: The District of Columbia Chapter
- Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
- The Valuable 500
- Disability Rights Arizona
- Insightful Visionaries
- Lighthouse Guild
- AccessAbility Officer
- Women on Wheels New York
- CAMBA
- For the Good of the People
- New York City Board of Elections will have ballot marking devices onsite to try out.
- Foundation Fighting Blindness
Volunteers
- Tiffany Markey-Jacobs
- Elif Erbuga
- Talia Harris
- Christopher Bonner
- Bonnie Wekesa
Accessibility Companies for Event
- Real time captioning in English and Spanish provided by Temeku Professional Services (Woman Owned/African American Owned/Disabled Veteran Owned)
- American Sign Language (ASL), Tactile ASL (TASL) services provided by Natural Languages
Accessibility Support at Event
- American Sign Language (ASL) and Tactile ASL (TASL) interpretation
- -Captioning provided in Real Time in English and Spanish by Temeku Professional Services. Captions are available in Spanish only via the third party link and English is available in Zoom and the third party link.
- Please email Marc at marc@safmanconsulting.com or Jourdan at jourdan.saunders@theresourcekey.com if you need alternative accommodations, e.g. Protactile (PT), Braille or Large Print programs, etc.
- Event Organizers: Marc Safman, CEO of Safman Consulting and Jourdan Saunders, CEO of The Resource Key
Speakers
Patrick Cokley, Senior Program Officer, Equity and Social Justice Partnerships at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Shameka Andrews, Disability Consultant, Author, State Coordinator of Ms. Wheelchair NY
Christopher Johnson, CEO of Creative Minds, Gallaudet University Project Manager, Division of Equity, Diversity and Inclusive Excellence, Adjunct Professor at Howard Community College
Ola Ojewumi, Founder and Director at Project ASCEND
Dr. D'Arcee Charington Neal, Assistant Professor at Fairfield University
Neal Carter, Co-Founder of Disability Victory
Tameka Citchen-Spruce, Michigan Disability Rights Coalition, LEAD Co-Director, Owner of Living Unapologetically Media LLC.
Thomas Reid, Producer of Reid My Mind Podcast
Korian “Koko” DeMont Thomas, Student at New York University (NYU) majoring in Public Health
Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, Lieutenant Governor of New York State
Stefani L. Zinerman, New York State Assemblymember Representing the 56th District (Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights)
Sherman Gillums, Jr., U.S. Marine Officer (retired)
Congressman Jamaal Bowman, U.S. Representative for New York's 16th Congressional District
Usherla DeBerry, Acting Director of the Maryland Governor's Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Andrew Reese, Director of the DC Department on Disability Services
Dr. Edward O. Manyibe, Langston University, Research Director at the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Research and Capacity Building for Minority Entities
Melissa Navarro, Community Manager for Foundation Fighting Blindness