Finding Space
Finding Space
Podcast Description
A podcast where UC Berkeley students, educators, and staff from the disability community tell their stories and call the campus community in on acts of advocacy and disability justice.
Share your feedback: findingspace@berkeley.edu
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Content Themes
The podcast centers on themes of disability justice, advocacy, and inclusive practices in higher education, featuring episodes like one with Carmen Varela discussing the importance of the UC Berkeley Disabled Students' Program and how faculty can better support students needing accommodations.
A podcast where UC Berkeley students, educators, and staff from the disability community tell their stories and call the campus community in on acts of advocacy and disability justice.
Share your feedback: findingspace@berkeley.edu
Marlenne Perez shares her experience navigating UC Berkeley as a first generation, low income, independent undergraduate student with a disability. She shares how relationships with mentors, professors and student support staff enabled her to stay at Berkeley when she thought she might drop out, and she offers advice for faculty who want to support students with disabilities but aren’t sure where to start.
Review transcripts on our show webpage.
Share your feedback with us at findingspace@berkeley.edu.
Finding Space is brought to you by Research Teaching, and Learning (RTL) in UC Berkeley’s Division of Undergraduate Education.
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