Read the transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint Watch the webinar on YouTube with captions Speakers: Evan Krame, Rabbi and Lawyer Michelle Wolf, Founding Executive Director, Jewish Los Angeles Special Trust Frederick M. Misilo, Jr., President, The Arc and President, Fletcher Tilton, PC With the COVID-19 crisis, people are writing their wills faster than ever before. [click to continue...]
Facilitators: Ollie Cantos, Board of Advisors, RespectAbility Janet LaBreck, Board of Directors, RespectAbility Organizers: Baksha Ali, Community Outreach Fellow, RespectAbility Debbie Fink, Director of Community Outreach and Impact, RespectAbility Feeling isolated and looking to gain ideas on how to make it through this time? This webinar, the first in a series, focused on solutions people [click to continue...]
New York City, March 21 – On one afternoon in late January, I was in the locker room of a gym. As an admirer of nature and being outside, I would have loved to have done my workout in Central Park, but slushy streets are not an ideal ingredient for successful road running. Besides, none [click to continue...]
New York City, March 20 – Cerebral Palsy (CP) is hard to discuss, specifically because there’s such a wide spectrum of symptoms and severity to consider. While mine presents itself as a limp with balance issues and problems with spatial relations, a friend of mine with the same medical designation can wear high heels without [click to continue...]
Washington, D.C., March 19 – New polling data of the battleground states shows that the disability community is large and electorally contested, but the issues they care about most are not being sufficiently addressed. The phone poll of 1,000 registered voters across 16 presidential and Senate battleground states was conducted by Stan Greenberg, Ph.D., and the [click to continue...]
New York City, March 18 – October of 2019. Everything looks the same even after all these years, but there is something different. I look to my left and right, and I am walking beside the same faces I have known for a decade now. The faces of my two best girlfriends I once used [click to continue...]
A FREE lunch session for philanthropists, nonprofits, social justice activists, faith leaders and diversity professionals in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 12, 2020 With Matan Koch, Director of RespectAbility California and Jewish Leadership, Lauren Appelbaum, Vice President of RespectAbility and Tatiana Lee, Hollywood Inclusionist at RespectAbility. This year climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg was recognized as [click to continue...]
Read the webinar transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint Watch the webinar on YouTube with open captions Speakers: Moderator: Philip Kahn-Pauli, Policy Director, RespectAbility Lori Golden, Abilities Strategy Leader, Ernst & Young, LLP Donna Meltzer, CEO, National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD) German Parodi, Co-Executive Director, Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies Shaylin Sluzalis, Co-Executive [click to continue...]
Read the webinar transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint Watch the webinar on YouTube with open captions Speakers: Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, President, RespectAbility Philip Kahn-Pauli, Policy and Practices Director, RespectAbility Speakers Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, president of RespectAbility, is co-author of Disability in Philanthropy & Nonprofits: A Study on the Inclusion and Exclusion of the 1-in-5 People [click to continue...]
Read the webinar transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint Watch the webinar on YouTube with open captions Speakers: Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, President, RespectAbility and Co-Founder, Mizrahi Family Charitable Fund Tatiana Lee, Inclusionist, RespectAbility Matan Koch, Director of RespectAbility California and Jewish Leadership, RespectAbility About Our Speakers Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi is the President of RespectAbility. She regularly [click to continue...]
