{"id":80040,"date":"2021-11-30T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=80040"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:21","slug":"carleton-experts-available-international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2021\/carleton-experts-available-international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available: International Day of Persons with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Experts Available: International Day of Persons with Disabilities\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Friday, December 3 is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and Carleton experts are available to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erica Carson-Sami<\/strong>
\nInstructor, School of Social Work<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: EricaCarsonSami@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carson-Sami is available to discuss barriers to employment and inclusive leadership, as well as the importance of using disability-positive language. She can share her experience as a woman with a disability. Carson-Sami teaches the fourth-year course Social Work and People with Disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to her current role as a policy analyst with the Government of Canada, Carson-Sami was a research and development officer for the David C. Onley Initiative where she worked with post-secondary institutions to build their capacity in supporting students with disabilities throughout their employment journey. She has run a mentorship program for adults with disabilities who experienced barriers to employment and worked with community health centres to build inclusive and accessible hiring practices. Carson-Sami has over a decade of experience volunteering in the disability community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cathy Malcolm Edwards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lead, Coordinated Accessibility Strategy Implementation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: Cathy.Edwards@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malcolm Edwards is available to discuss Carleton\u2019s coordinated accessibility strategy and the relationship between the built environment and mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malcolm Edwards leads the coordinated accessibility strategy at Carleton. She is a Master of Design candidate and a trainee of the Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) training program\u2014Canada\u2019s first interdisciplinary post-secondary accessibility-training program. Malcolm Edwards identifies with living experiences of visible and non-visible disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boris Vukovic<\/strong>
\nDirector, Research, Education, Accessibility and Design (READ) Initiative; National Director, Canadian Accessibility Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: Boris.Vukovic@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vukovic is available to discuss accessibility-related topics and non-visible disabilities in the context of higher education. He is also available to discuss the READ Initiative<\/a>, the Canadian Accessibility Network and Carleton\u2019s Coordinated Accessibility Strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Vukovic, please visit: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/read\/people\/boris-vukovic\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adrian Chan<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Department Systems and Computer Engineering; Director, READi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: <\/strong>Adrian.Chan@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chan is available to discuss accessibility-related research activities at Carleton, including the READi accessibility training program and the Abilities Living Laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Chan, please visit: http:\/\/www.sce.carleton.ca\/faculty\/chan\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominique Marshall
\n<\/strong>Professor, Department of History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: Dominique.Marshall@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marshall is a member of the Carleton University Disability Research group<\/a>. She is available to discuss the group\u2019s work on oral histories of disability activists, history of disability, inclusion on campus, as well as disability and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Marshall, please visit: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/dominique-marshall\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, December 3 is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and Carleton experts are available to comment. Erica Carson-Sami Instructor, School of Social Work Email: EricaCarsonSami@cunet.carleton.ca Carson-Sami is available to discuss barriers to employment and inclusive leadership, as well as the importance of using disability-positive language. She can share her experience as a woman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":75662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[183,106,143,95,112],"class_list":["post-80040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-accessibility","tag-history","tag-read-initiative","tag-social-work","tag-systems-and-computer-engineering"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80043,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80040\/revisions\/80043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}