Disability Victory Profiled for U.S. Democracy Day
Friday, September 15th is U.S. Democracy Day, a collaborative media effort that coincides with the International Day of Democracy. U.S. Democracy Day was launched as an effort to encourage news organizations around the country to report more and better information about the crisis facing democracy in the United States.
We had the opportunity to sit down with the collaborators of U.S. Democracy Day for a profile on Disability Victory, where we discussed the importance of increasing thoughtful disability representation in the United States and how Disability Victory is working to empower disabled leaders to run for office and work on campaigns.
Here is what our Co-Founder and Vice President, Neal Carter, had to say about increasing disability representation:
“You don’t want to be the first. You want to be the first of many. You want to create space so it’s not just you opening the door and sitting at the table. You want to create space so there are several disabled people in elected office at the federal level, state level and local level. You want to create space so there are several neurodivergent folks at all levels of government. You want to create space so there are multiple blind or low vision, multiple deaf or hard of hearing folks. You want to create all of these spaces, so it’s not just one and it’s many.”