Date: Friday, Aug. 16, 2024
Time: 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Recording: This webinar will be recorded and available for viewing for one month after the event.
Description: Attendees will learn about the 10 principles of disability justice and how they can keep these in mind so they’re reflected in their policy, programs and work that they do.
Presenters: Patty Berne is the co-founder and executive and artistic director of Sins Invalid, which is a disability justice-based performance project, centralizing people of color, queer people and gender non-conforming people with disabilities. Berne’s graduate training in clinical psychology focused on trauma and healing for survivors of interpersonal and state violence. Her professional background includes community organizing within the Haitian diaspora, internationally supporting the Guatemalan democratic movement, offering mental health support to survivors of interpersonal violence and advocating for LGBTQI and disability perspectives in reproductive genetic technologies. Berne’s experience as a Japanese-Haitian queer woman with a disability provides grounding for her work creating “liberated zones” for marginalized people. They are widely recognized for their work to establish the framework and praxis of disability justice.
Terri L. Wilder, MSW, is a social worker and activist for the rights of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), long COVID and HIV. Since 1989, she has worked in public health providing social services, coordinating education for clients and medical providers, managing volunteer-led programs and advocating for policy change. She has presented at local, national and international conferences on a variety of health topics. Wilder was diagnosed with ME in March 2016. Since her diagnosis, she has worked with elected officials, public health departments, health care providers and activists to raise awareness and change policy across the globe. She was finishing her PhD in sociology at Georgia State University when she became ill; however, she believes she has had the disease since 1996. She has years of experience working with #MEAction and has represented the organization on the federal Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) and during National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) meetings. She uses the skills she learned from the HIV movement and the LGBTQ+ community to fight for the ME and long COVID community. Wilder served as the co-leader of #MEAction New York for several years. She is currently the chair of #MEAction Minnesota.
CEUs: This program is approved by the Minnesota Board on Aging for 1.5 clock hours, 1.5 social work CEU credits. Please note, certificates of attendance cannot be given for watching the recording.
Register: Closed.
