Disability Symposium

Each one of us has thoughts and expectations of a leader. Fair, honest, decisive, and strategic might be some of the characteristics that you expect from a leader. Leadership skills grow and strengthen through experience, feedback, and persistence. To accomplish our work as disability advisors, educators, and advocates, we problem-solve, research, and collaborate to find ways to eliminate barriers for people with disabilities. “It can be done” serves as the mantra for professionals in the disability field. The 21st Annual Weingarten Center Disability Symposium focuses on the theme of leadership. Think about your role, whether as a university administrator, a K-12 educator, a parent, a student. How have you used your leadership skills to get a project accomplished, to destigmatize what it means to have a disability, to foster universal design, to be a change agent in your organization?