Join us for this fireside chat with Emily Ladau, author of Demystifying Disability.

Note that this conversation may be repurposed as a podcast episode. Tiffany will kick it off with a few questions and then open it up for Q&A!

About Emily Ladau: Emily Ladau is a passionate disability rights activist, writer, storyteller, and digital communications consultant whose career began at the age of 10, when she appeared on several episodes of Sesame Street to educate children about her life with a physical disability. Her writing has been published in outlets including The New York Times, SELF, Salon, Vice, and HuffPost and her first book, Demystifying Disability, was published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in September 2021. Emily has spoken before numerous audiences, from the U.S. Department of Education to the United Nations. Central to all of her work is a focus on and harnessing the power of storytelling as a tool for people to become engaged in disability and social justice issues.

Access: This event will use Zoom's auto-captioning and the recording will be captioned with a link to the rough transcript. If you have other access needs, please message me!

PLEASE NOTE: All events are open to everyone, whether you're feeling up for being on camera or not! Please participate as little or as much as you like. Your camera being on is TOTALLY optional. We understand that everyone has their own comfort level with this.

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