Co-Director Sarah Blahovec Talks Disability Organizing on Disability Inclusion: Required

In the aftermath of the 2024 election, Disability Victory’s Co-Founder and Co-Director Sarah Blahovec joined Disability Philanthropy Forum’s Disability Inclusion: Required Podcast to talk about disability organizing under a 2nd Trump administration, global disability solidarity, and how funders can support the work of organizations like Disability Victory to empower disabled leadership.

Speaking about the need to fund progressive organizing infrastructure, Sarah said:

It's challenging because we're up against billions of dollars from special interests, from corporations that are trying to erode labor protections and trying to make these changes. And so, we really need to see funding at the community level, we need to see funding for movement work and organizers at the community level as I said. I think a lot of organizations that were mobilizing in 2024 to get out to voters, particularly, I saw a lot of discussion from organizations that try to work with communities of color that they did not have the adequate funds that they needed to get out to their communities and to be able to mobilize to vote. I think we're going to need funding at all levels, national organizations, state level and local level that are all doing this work both in terms of voter mobilization, on policy advocacy to support different communities.

Listen to the full podcast and access the transcript on the Disability & Philanthropy Forum website.