The Urban Institute is launching a Disability Equity Policy Initiative (DEPI) within our Office of Race and Equity Research. This work will have three initial focus areas: housing for disabled people, immigrants with disabilities, and challenges for disabled people living in rural areas.

Please join the Urban Institute and nationally recognized experts for a conversation on the importance of researchers advocating for disability inclusion in data collection and how we can apply a disability lens to our work. 

SPEAKERS:

• Celina Barrios-Millner, Co–Vice President, Office of Race and Equity Research, Urban Institute 
• Allie Cannington, Senior Manager, Advocacy and Organizing, The Kelsey
• Rebecca Cokley, Program Officer, US Disability Rights, Ford Foundation
• Katherine A. Pérez, Visiting Professor of Law, Loyola Law School; Director, The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy & Innovation
• Susan J. Popkin, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute
• Bonnielin Swenor, Director and Founder, Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center
• Kimberlyn Leary, Senior Vice President, Urban Institute (moderator)
   

Funding for this event was provided by seed funding from the Ford Foundation. For more on Urban’s funding policies, go to urban.org/fundingprinciples.

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