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Disabled community voting bloc holds potential power
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
disability compliance for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-8001
pISSN - 1086-1335
DOI - 10.1002/dhe.30570
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , voting , presentation (obstetrics) , power (physics) , government (linguistics) , center (category theory) , disabled people , political science , event (particle physics) , sociology , public administration , media studies , law , philosophy , medicine , linguistics , physics , chemistry , life style , demography , quantum mechanics , politics , radiology , crystallography
LOS ANGELES — “When we embrace disability in our society, we are embracing diversity,” said Catherine Perez, director of the Loyola Marymount University's Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy & Innovation at the center's inaugural symposium examining the civic engagement of the disabled. Perez, director of the Coelho Center, introduced the keynote speaker by stating that the event “is about love, respect, and the celebration of diversity.” The keynote presentation addressed how a politically empowered voting base made up of those in the broader disability community could have wide‐ranging implications for the future government.