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Professor Karin Boxer speaks with Emily about disabilities and disability representation.

[Recorded Tuesday, March 19, 2024] UVA students Bea Webster (21) from Vienna, VA and Evan Small (21) from Fairfield, CT recorded a One Small Step conversation as part of their Lead From Anywhere course. Evan & Bea explored their political...

One Small Step conversation partners Randi [No Name Given] (23) and Anne Matava (60) talk about their parents, disability, recovery, trans and nonbinary identities, generational differences, history, and their hopes for the future.

One Small Step conversation partners Archie "Wayne" Hamilton (47) and Kathryn Healy (64) connect on their enjoyment of Shakespeare, the importance of everyone's unique story, and having as well as advocating for people with disabilities.

One Small Step partners Warren McKeen (62) and Matthew Shapiro (31) discuss their work in disability justice and advocacy.

Angela Kwok (44) and One Small Step partner, Helen Leddy (84), exchange overlapping interests and concerns over disability along with the American health care system.

Joseph Batavia (31) speaks with his conversation partner Sarah Padgett (25) about his disability, disability rights, and the importance of coming together as a community.

Courtney Horton [no age given] shares a conversation with her colleague, Ann "Annie" Scott (77), about Ann contracting polio when she was a child, about her family, the different jobs she has worked over the years, and about advocacy for...

Leroy Moore Jr. (53) is interviewed by his friend, Kathleen Kiley (59), about the process of co-creating Krip-Hop, a music collective and label for artists with disabilities. They discuss the importance of visibility for hip-hop musicians with disabilities and the...

"The reason and how I got into this work was really a fluke of nature when doctors told us that our second child, who had just been born, probably had Down syndrome," says Rich Robison, the executive director of the...

Becki Cohn-Vargas (63) and Randi Thomson-Story (64) talk about their friendship. They talk about memories from when they were in high school together, their experiences in college and as young adults, and their lives today.

Cliff Poetz, 51, talks with is good friend Charlie Lakin, 64, about his life as a disability activist.