23: Opening Doors For The Disabled Community with KR Liu

Join Change Catalyst Founder & CEO Melinda Briana Epler with KR Liu, Head of Brand Accessibility at Google in conversation about how we can make the working environment more inclusive for people with disabilities. 

We talked about KR Liu’s journey to becoming an advocate, based on her own story of struggling in the workplace with dealing with hearing loss.

We learned 

The importance of speaking up and making the disabled community part of every department in a company.The dramatic statistic with regards to the representation of the disabled community in the workplace and even more for the Black disabled communityThe simple actions you can put in place to help to make this community more visible. 1 in 4 people experience disability at some points including permanent, temporary or situational. 

Some of our favorite quotes of our conversation

" Every day I have the power to influence someone's life"

"50% of the people killed by the police are black and have a disability"

" Disability is something we all experience at some point in our lives”

"If anything, we want people to feel empowered by us on what we have been able to achieve.

That's really, really important that people understand the contribution that disabled people have made to society"

Learn more about KR Liu  https://www.krliu.com/

Additional resources: 

“Crip Camp” on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81001496Andrea LaVant’s conversation on CripCamp and ADA30 with former President Barack Obama: https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/barack-obamas-surprise-visit-crip-camp-ada-30-1034038/“Being Heumann” by Jennifer Heumann: https://www.amazon.com/Being-Heumann-Unrepentant-Disability-Activist/dp/0807019291“Disability Visibility Project” by Alice Wong at: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/about/

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