Read transcript For many folks who are looking to start a career in the Entertainment industry, whether in development, writing, production, marketing, and everything else in between, the starting point is film school. Since the best way to improve on-screen representation of people with disabilities is to hire more disabled people in all aspects of [click to continue...]
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Los Angeles, CA, December 6 – RespectAbility is excited to announce that starting in January 2022, 15 Apprentices in its National Leadership Program will be paid $15 an hour while they upskill for careers that will improve the lives of other people with disabilities. The National Leadership Program trains leaders who are committed to disability issues [click to continue...]
RespectAbility celebrated seven great nights of Chanukah fun (taking Friday December 3rd off for Shabbat to relax and reflect). Each night we lit candles as a virtual group. Additionally, we featured two great members of our community who shared a very short (3-5 minute) and upbeat personal story or remark about Chanukah. Celebrations included candle [click to continue...]
Disability Representation In Film & Television: How It Can Impact Your Bottom Line in a Positive Way
At L.A. ComicCon, we hosted a panel on disability inclusion in film and television. Attendees learned how inclusion can positively impact their bottom line and stretch their marketing dollars for their feature film or television project. Speakers Panel introduction by Kelli McNeil-Yellen (writer/producer; Daruma). Moderator: Tatiana Lee, Actor, Model & Senior Entertainment Media Associate at [click to continue...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx_pWgDEkZU Jewish Funders Network hosted an exclusive presentation and facilitated discussion that covered the results of three major new studies on Jewish disability inclusion in the workforce. They discussed: Successful models from Jewish human service agencies for increasing employment for people with disabilities; What Leading Edge has learned about Jews and others with disabilities who work at [click to continue...]
Read transcript The federal government is actively working to capitalize on the accessibility gains made by remote work and striving to implement policies to promote the safety of workers in diverse sectors of the economy. This webinar featured three key high-level federal leaders reflecting on their work, their priorities and their hopes for the months [click to continue...]
Liz Amelia Green, an alumna of the RespectAbility cohort of the WarnerMedia Access Early Career Bootcamp who also is a filmmaker as well as a volunteer financial counselor, hosted a session on personal finance and budgeting. The session was geared toward disabled creatives and filmmakers. Liz discussed budgeting, saving, the basics of investing and compound [click to continue...]
In January 2020, writer and director Sheridan O’Donnell was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa. In October 2021 he was completing his feature debut, Little Brother, starring J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), Philip Ettinger (HBO’s I Know This Much Is True) and Daniel Diemer (Netflix’s The Half Of It), which is currently in post production. In this session, O’Donnell [click to continue...]
CCD hosted two panel discussions on innovative strategies best practices to recruit and hire people with disabilities in competitive integrated employment. Learn how one state (Washington) successfully transitioned to competitive integrated employment. Learn how state, provider, and local leaders collaborated to create a legislative movement to phase out 14c. Discussion will include ways that other [click to continue...]
Read transcript This was a discussion in partnership with Roadmap Writers surrounding the experience of disabled writers currently working in the writers room and beyond. Roadmap Writers is a talent training and discovery platform for screenwriters ready for a guided path to success. Their programs are hosted by working industry executives and are designed to [click to continue...]