Join the Enabled Disabled Community: https://www.enabledchat.com In this episode, we are talking to Daniel DeFabio, who co-founded the Disorder Channel, the Rare Disease Film Festival, and also works as a community manager for Global Genes. Daniel and I discuss his background in designing games, creating media, and how the birth of his son Lucas, who was born with a rare disease called Menkes Disease, helped him and his wife figure out what really matters in their lives.  Daniel's empathy, creativity, and openness shine in this episode. It's another terrific example of how the difficulti ..read more

Join the Enabled Disabled Community: https://www.enabledchat.com Millions Lost The Unrealized Potential of Entrepreneurship and Disability We often read that people with a disability are especially good at solving problems, have a surplus of resilience, and utilize soft skills–like empathy–to better adapt to the world. If solving problems, resilience, and soft skills–like empathy–are common and requisite traits for entrepreneurs, why are so few people with a disability entrepreneurs, or working with entrepreneurs? What biases and narratives still exist that continue leaving people with a disab ..read more

Join the Enabled Disabled Community: https://www.enabledchat.com The Nuance of Disability: “Because of,” NOT “In Spite Of” A film director and producer, along with a writer, share their stories as creatives who embraced their disability and made a conscious choice to flourish because of it, not in spite of it. As a result, their work is now reclaiming the narrative around disability and portraying it not as a burden, but instead, simply as another essential consideration within which to work, much like a budget or a guideline. When reframed like this, disability changes from an afterthought or ..read more

Join the Enabled Disabled Community: https://www.enabledchat.com How Diversity Actualizes Potential: The Omnium Circus Approach Most conversations about human resources in organizations revolve around diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yet those three topics usually focus primarily on race and LGBTQ rights, and disability is often neglected in the dialog. This program will explore the major benefits that organizations, audiences, and communities reap when diversity–including disability–is embraced at every level. Join Gustavo Serafini, host of the Enabled Disabled Podcast, in conversation with ..read more

Join the Enabled Disabled Community: https://www.enabledchat.com Universal Design: How "Inclusive Architecture" Benefits Businesses & People Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote that the planning and designing of public and commercial spaces for accessibility and diversity shouldn’t be seen as a requirement, but instead, as an opportunity, both economic and creative. And he also emphasized that such a vision required a shift in mindset: Universal Design (UD). With one in four American adults living with a disability, it’s hard to believe that only a handf ..read more

Join the Enabled Disabled Community: https://www.enabledchat.com Inspirational Speaker Ruth Rathblott is a TEDx speaker and an award-winning former CEO committed to creating inclusion for all. She is a leader who has spent her entire career focused on providing opportunities for those who face obstacles. Born with a limb difference, Ruth currently speaks on issues of inclusion and diversity, the gifts of being unique, the freedom of accepting your differences, and rising above life’s challenges. Ruth has been a leader in nonprofit organizations for more than 25 years, 15 of which she spent at ..read more

Join the Enabled Disabled Community: https://www.enabledchat.com Maya is the producer, creator, editor, and host of Proud Stutter, a podcast about shifting the narrative around stuttering and embracing verbal diversity. She is a writer and community organizer with over eight years of strategic communications experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. As a woman who stutters, she is a stuttering advocate working to shift societal norms around stuttering and lifting up marginalized voices. Maya is working on a book of short stories about growing up with a stutter, women representa ..read more

Join the Enabled Disabled Community: https://www.enabledchat.com I am Brianna Paauwe and I became a wheelchair user after a car accident left me with a spinal cord injury. Since the accident, I have found my love of helping others through volunteering and going back to school for Human Services, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. Since graduation in May, I have helped my team launch a fitness app for wheelchair users, moved to a new state, grown my strength and independence, and I am excited to start helping others in the disability community. I want to connect more with others and help them r ..read more

Join the Enabled Disabled Community: https://www.enabledchat.com Lisa Rosen, MS, has 30 years of experience in physical rehabilitation with expertise in education, training, and program development.  Most recent professional experience as Manager of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s LIFE Center (formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), a multimedia education center and web portal for people with physical disabilities, their families, health professionals, and the community. Responsible for supervising Education Program Managers who provide education programs, classes, suppo ..read more

Join the Enabled Disabled Community: https://www.enabledchat.com Moyez graduated from Trinity College Dublin (complete with an Irish accent), he trained as a family physician in Scotland, with postgraduate qualifications from Nottingham and Sheffield Universities , UK. He now works as the Associate Dean at the Melbourne Clinical School, University of Notre Dame Australia. He also sounds like a BBC newscaster, which is why he hosts the Health Design Podcast. Dr. Jiwa authored The Art of Doctoring, the book launch unfortunately coincided with the pandemic or you would have read it already. The b ..read more