{"id":482,"date":"2026-01-23T15:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/?page_id=482"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:15:34","slug":"disability-equity-conversations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/disability-equity-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Equity Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are excited to announce the focus for the 2026 Critical Conversation Series: <strong>Advancing Disability Equity in Multilingual Education<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year&#8217;s project will advance disability equity in multilingual education by examining how intersecting language and ability hierarchies marginalize learners in diverse educational contexts and how to engage in more inclusive and anti-oppressive practices. Through research dialogues, international partnerships, mentorship, and open-access resource creation, the initiative aims to foster anti-ableist pedagogies and strengthens global collaboration among educators, researchers, and graduate students in multilingual education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first session of the Disability Equity Conversation Series featured <strong>Dr. Sara E.N. Kangas<\/strong>, associate professor in the College of Education at Lehigh University. Dr. Kangas&#8217;s work focuses on on challenging systemic inequities facing multilingual learners with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/disability-equity-conversations\/first-session-in-the-disability-equity-conversation-series\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"494\">Event details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/files\/2026\/03\/Summary-of-conversation-with-Sara-Kangas-Mar17.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:200px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Summary of conversation with Sara Kangas Mar17.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ac72795d-5267-4492-9f32-7147484d0eee\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/files\/2026\/03\/Summary-of-conversation-with-Sara-Kangas-Mar17.pdf\">Summary of conversation with Sara Kangas Mar17<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/files\/2026\/03\/Summary-of-conversation-with-Sara-Kangas-Mar17.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ac72795d-5267-4492-9f32-7147484d0eee\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Funding:<\/strong><br>Strategic Equity &amp; Anti-Racism Enhancement Fund (StEAR)<br>University of British Columbia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce the focus for the 2026 Critical Conversation Series: Advancing Disability Equity in Multilingual Education. This year&#8217;s project will advance disability equity in multilingual education by examining how intersecting language and ability hierarchies marginalize learners in diverse educational contexts and how to engage in more inclusive and anti-oppressive practices. Through research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107300,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-482","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}