Please join the Disability Studies Program for these presentations by UW students!
Location: Mary Gates Hall 024 (the UW D Center)
Date: Fri Feb 26, 2016, 12-1pm
– 12pm, Tiffany Woelfel, Marissa Pighin, Marianna Grady, “The Intersection of Sexual Violence and Disability: Campus Experience and Policy”
– 12:30pm Marcella Ascoli, “Disability Space in Public Parks”
Accessibility:
CART captioning and ASL interpretation have been requested.
We ask that you please be fragrance free.
https://depts.washington.edu/disstud/harlan-hahn-ds-award-talks-feb-26-12-1pm
Abstracts & Bios:
Tiffany Woelfel is a student in the MSW, MPH and Global Health’s HIV/STI Graduate Certificate programs. Her areas of research include social media and research ethics, addiction, HIV, traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. Tiffany will present on her Hahn-funded project, which included co-hosting a workshop on Graphic Narratives that empowered students to share their stories of oppression and resilience using the art form of comic books, and co-authoring a campus-wide evaluation plan that would estimate the prevalence of comorbid disability and sexual violence (SV) among UW students and find new ways to best coordinate campus services specifically for student survivors of SV with disability.
Marcella Ascoli is a student at UW Bothell in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences. Over the summer of 2015, Marcella conducted an ethnography of public parks in the King County area, using spacial theory to investigate public space and its inclusion – or in many cases exclusion – of people with disabilities. The project helps to challenge the idea that ADA requirements are the top bar to meet in terms of accessibility, and will result in the creation of an interactive map and an accessibility scale, comparable to the walkability scale used in many Seattle metro neighborhoods.
