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KEY 7. Interconnected

"We want to be a community that is centered around universal design and being inclusive of all people regardless of ability. That means that we have to continue to learn about accessibility and disability, and celebrate the many contributions and gifts our disabled students bring to our campus.” -Eduardo Pazos, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for Inclusion and Diversity

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Jourdan Saunders, CEO

Forward thinking Speech-Language Pathologist and LinkedIn Top Voice, is the CEO of The Resource Key, where she leads the integration of inclusive and accessible systems in healthcare organizations, ensuring people with disabilities and older adults are not excluded. Leveraging her expertise in marketing and accessibility technology, Jourdan has been recognized as one of the top 100 impactful Speech-Language Pathologists. She has played a pivotal role in helping companies secure over $20 million in funding while reaching over 2 million people across 300+ organizations. Her leadership spans multiple industries, inspiring conversations and driving action on inclusion and accessibility.

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Interconnected will be an important word as we continue to look towards the future in building inclusion and accessibility. Taking new information, unrelated concepts, different perspectives and interconnecting them to build out the future will be a skillset to continue to develop to continue moving forward.

Interconnected Article

New Disability Culture Coordinator advocates for disabled community by Juliana Vandermark from The Bowdoin Orient

Link to Article: https://bowdoinorient.com/2023/02/03/new-disability-culture-coordinator-advocates-for-disabled-community/

This article discusses how for the first time Bowdoin, the College hired a Disability Culture Coordinator. When reviewing this article here are some of the components that were interconnected:

  • Conversations between Disabled Student Association and different administrators.
  • Listening to students and realizing more support was needed surrounding ableism, accessibility, and disability.
  • Position created based off of listening and conversations discussed.
  • Bringing disabled community to the table surrounding different important conversations.
  • Community growth

Quote from article: "We want to be a community that is centered around universal design and being inclusive of all people regardless of ability. That means that we have to continue to learn about accessibility and disability, and celebrate the many contributions and gifts our disabled students bring to our campus.” -Eduardo Pazos, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for Inclusion and Diversity

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