On Jan. 22, Lauren Proby hosted a virtual conversation discussing the politics of disability, Black womanhood, and disability justice at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with disability advocates Nichelle N. Cook, Rasheera Dopson, Ola Ojewumi, and Britney Wilson.
Proby is a student at Spelman College (Class of 2025), and she is currently a Coelho Center Disability Law, Policy and Innovation Fellow at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California.
Cook is the founder and principal consultant at Practegy LLC. Dopson is a community research advocate and scientist.
Ojewumi is the founder and director of Project ASCEND. Wilson is an associate professor of law, as well as the director of the Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic, at New York Law School (NYLS). They began the conversation by sharing their experiences with accommodations as students at their HBCUs.
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