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The Truth About Disability Rights: Rebecca Cokley

The Truth About Disability Rights: Rebecca Cokley

FromFuture Hindsight


The Truth About Disability Rights: Rebecca Cokley

FromFuture Hindsight

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Nov 17, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Thursday, November 10th, 2022   Rebecca Cokley is a disability-rights advocate and the first U.S. Disability Rights Program Officer for the Ford Foundation. From 2009 to 2013, she served as an appointee in President Barack Obama’s White House. We discuss the lived experience of being disabled in America. It's an important conversation that truly exposes the inequities of our society.   We don't live in a society that allows for equality for disabled people. In fact, if you're disabled, you're more likely to be poor. Also, most people see disability rights as extra. We have to fundamentally shift to an equity mindset  and go back to address the historic inequities from the beginning.    Follow Rebecca on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/RebeccaCokley    Follow Mila on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/milaatmos    Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/   Love Future Hindsight? Take our Listener Survey!  http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard    Want to support the show and get it early?  https://patreon.com/futurehindsight    Check out the Future Hindsight website!  www.futurehindsight.com     Credits:  Host: Mila Atmos  Guests: Rebecca Cokley Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producers: Zack Travis and Sara Burningham
Released:
Nov 17, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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