5: Advocating for People with Disabilities with Tiffany Yu

Join Empovia (formerly Change Catalyst) Founder & CEO Melinda Briana Epler with Tiffany Yu, CEO & Founder at Diversability to discuss ways to be an effective ally and advocate for people with diverse disabilities.

In this episode, we talk about Tiffany's disability origin story, and her path to growing into her disability identity. We speak a bit about #NoBodyIsDisposable and what people with disabilities are experiencing during COVID19. Tiffany shares her experience as a person with intersectional identities as an Asian disabled woman, we discuss the significance of the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and go over disability identity language. And we go over many ways that leaders can better lead with empathy and allyship for people with disabilities.

Learn more about Tiffany's work at Diversability http://www.mydiversability.com/

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More to learn for Allies - Tiffany mentioned many of these in this episode:

1 ➡ Diversability's Resources for Allies:http://www.mydiversability.com/be-an-ally
2 ➡ "Building Equity and Allyship for People with Disabilities” at Tech Inclusion 2019, panel moderated by Tiffany Yu https://youtu.be/Uz3c5tXYndI
3 ➡ "Disability is Diversity" - Tiffany’s Tech Inclusion talk: https://youtu.be/U1r6AaqudfE
4 ➡ "The Power of Exclusion" - Tiffany’s TEDx talk https://youtu.be/qVtDejw8ZBw
5 ➡ Change Catalyst's Ability in Tech playlist on Youtube: https://tcin.co/AbilityinTechPlaylist
6 ➡ Watch "Crip Camp" on Netflix https://tcin.co/CripCamp
7 ➡ "I’m disabled and need a ventilator to live. Am I expendable during this pandemic?" by Alice Wong on Vox https://tcin.co/AliceWongArticle
8 ➡ "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much" by Stella Young on TED https://tcin.co/StellaYoungTED
9 ➡ No Body Is Disposable https://nobodyisdisposable.org/
10 ➡ Stop AAPI Hate http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/

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