Disability Rights Now: Inside the Fight for Accessibility, Inclusion, and Independent Living
Disability Rights Now brings you frontline conversations with the advocates, leaders, and changemakers shaping the future of disability rights. Produced by Disability Rights Podcasts, each episode features direct voices from the independent living movement working to protect and advance the civil rights of people with disabilities. If your organization wants to amplify your mission and share your stories, visit DisabilityRightsPodcasts.org or email matt@DisabilityRightsPodcasts.org for more info about how we create a custom podcast for your cause.
Episodes
In this episode of Disability Rights Now, we speak with Keri Gray—speaker, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker at this year’s NCIL Conference. Keri shares her perspective on the intersection of race and disability, the need for sustained investment in Black disabled leadership, and the importance of centering lived experience in systems change.
We discuss what it takes to build truly inclusive spaces—and why that work must be led by ...
In this episode of Disability Rights Now, we speak with Keely Cat-Wells—entrepreneur, advocate, and keynote speaker at this year’s NCIL Conference. Keely shares how she’s using technology to build more inclusive hiring pipelines, reshape outdated systems, and create new pathways to employment for people with disabilities. We talk about authentic representation, accessibility in media and business, and what it takes to create a trul...
In this special NCIL Conference preview episode, we talk with Theo Braddy, Executive Director of the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL), about the urgent threats facing disability rights in today’s political climate—and how the independent living movement can respond.
Theo shares his vision for the future of NCIL, what it means to lead with lived experience, and why building cross-movement solidarity is essential in this ...
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