The Accessible podcast returns with a new season that continues its mission of making disability leadership and disability issues accessible to a broad audience.
Hosted by UMKC Institute for Human Development Director George Gotto and Program Development Director Amelia Reighard, Accessible connects academic learning, lived experience and community impact through thoughtful, accessible conversations.
Produced in partnership by the Missouri UCEDD and Missouri LEND, the new season will open with a focused series titled “Advocacy in Action.” These early episodes will explore advocacy at multiple levels—individual, family, professional and systems-level—through conversations with disability leaders, advocates and experts working across sectors.
In addition to the advocacy-focused series, season five will feature episodes addressing current and newsworthy issues affecting the disability community, including education, healthcare access and food security programs such as SNAP. Together, these conversations aim to deepen understanding of how policy, systems and community-based efforts intersect to shape the lives of people with disabilities.
The season will also highlight the next generation of disability leaders through episodes featuring Missouri LEND trainees. These conversations will spotlight trainee-led community leadership projects, offering insight into how emerging professionals are applying interdisciplinary training, advocacy skills, and collaboration to address real-world challenges in communities across Missouri.
In addition to new episodes, Accessible will host a special Accessible Virtual Book Club event this spring. On April 2, listeners and community members are invited to join a live virtual discussion of Being Heumann, the memoir by disability rights activist Judith Heumann. The book club is open to anyone interested in disability history, advocacy and the ongoing work of the disability rights movement.
New episodes of Accessible will be released throughout the spring.
Listen and subscribe to Accessible wherever you get your podcasts or watch full video episodes on YouTube.
