Jonathan Mooney

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When the report came out, how many times did you all think the word disability or neurodivergence was mentioned in the report?

Zero.

I looked at post-George Floyd 2021, 2022, even into 2023, the diversity statements of about 100 Fortune 500 companies.

How many times was diversity or neurodivergence mentioned?

Zero.

So there's a...

There's an organized construct.

There's institutional momentum.

Now we can talk about whether or not there's backlash to that, which there is, and whether that's going to be set back.

But nonetheless, there's an infrastructure that's talking about building more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environments.

And our work as advocates is to advocate for the inclusion of disability and neurodivergence within that work.

And

And that has consequences to it.

It really does.

These systems are mapping resources to it.

And when different brains and bodies are excluded from it, it perpetuates the notion that these are not differences, but deficiencies.

And that's a path to start scaling some of the bright spots, the places of innovation.

Second thing I'll say, and this goes back to our catalytic question, first question about what's cool that's going on, what's progress.

You know, universal design has gotten a tremendous amount of uptake at the systems level in K-12 education.

Uh, you know, I, I remember hanging out with the cast folks in like 1999, 2000, where nobody knew what the hell universal design was.

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