Webinar 3: Advocacy & Survivorship

Description

This webinar features a cross disability panel of people who will address how to advocate for survivors with disabilities in the medical system, legal system, and after a crisis.

Presenters
  • Skylar Ashton Kantola (she and they, Facilitator), MESA Program Coordinator, Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault, kantola@purdue.edu
  • Michon Neal (zi/hir, Panelist)
  • Salem Goosby (he and they, Panelist)
  • Moriah Williams (they/she, Panelist)
  • Braycee Dudley (she/her, Panelist)
  • Danielle Pitmon (she/her, Panelist)
  • Kirat Sandhu (she/her, Tech Moderator), Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking

Closed Captions & Transcript created by Reshma Sunil Rawlani, MESA Graduate Student Worker

Co-Sponsors

Webinar 2: Legal Guardianship & Consent

Description

Learn about supported decision-making vs. the levels of legal guardianship and how guardianship impacts consent among people with disabilities.

Presenters
  • Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams (she/her), Prevention Specialist, Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV), cwilliams@icadvinc.org.
  • Melissa Keyes (she/her), Interim Executive Director, Legal Director, Indiana Disability Rights (IDR), MKeyes@IndianaDisabilityRights.org.
  • Kelsey Cowley (she/her), President, Self-Advocates of Indiana
  • Skylar Ashton Kantola (she and they), MESA Program Coordinator, Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault, kantola@purdue.edu
  • Kirat Sandhu (she/her, Tech Moderator), Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking

Closed Captions & Transcript created by Reshma Sunil Rawlani, MESA Graduate Student Worker

Co-Sponsors
Resources

Cierra’s slides

Melissa slides

Webinar 1: Historical & Cultural Context for Disability Justice & Primary Prevention

Description

What do the earliest land laws in the country have to do with guardianship of people with disabilities? What is the connection between colonization of indigenous people and experimentation on disabled and black bodies? This webinar will introduce attendees to disability frameworks, intersectionality, institutionalization, and the Indiana Disability History Project. Speakers will offer a Q&A portion for participants to hear from people with disabilities regarding their experiences with institutionalization in Indiana.

Presenters
  • Skylar Ashton Kantola (she and they), MESA Program Coordinator, Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault, kantola@purdue.edu
  • Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams (she/her), Prevention Specialist, Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV), cwilliams@icadvinc.org.
  • Jane Harlan-Simmons (she/her), Research Associate, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, jeharlan@indiana.edu
  • Kirat Sandhu (she/her, Tech Moderator), Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking

Closed Captions & Transcript created by Skye Ashton Kantola, MESA Program Coordinator

Co-Sponsors
Resources

Cierra’s annotated PPT Slides

Find more information on the Webinar Page.