Advocacy Is a Team Sport - How to Successfully Navigate Coalitions with Wendy Porch - Pt 1
Disability Rights, and Wrongs: The David LepodcastShow Notes
Disability rights advocacy is often not something you will do on your own. You frequently work with others. Naturally, differences in opinion happen. That’s why learning to successfully navigate coalitions and build common ground are crucial for anyone involved in advocacy.
Today’s guest, Wendy Porch, the executive director of CILT, the Centre for Independent Living in Toronto, has extensive experience doing this. She teaches us how to find common ground and circumnavigate pitfalls. As always, this episode includes practical, actionable tips on how to apply what we learn from our guests.
this is part 1 of 2 of David’s conversation with Wendy Porch.
Learn more about CILT the Centre for Independent Living in Toronto: https://cilt.ca/
Watch The Agenda with Steve Paikin - Demanding Disability Rights Amid COVID-19. Ontario’s flagship public affairs TV program, TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Steve Paikin interviewed both David Lepofsky and Wendy Porch, the executive director of CILT, the Centre for Independent Living in Toronto. The panel addressed the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on people with disabilities, and the heightened barriers they face during the pandemic, especially in access to health care and education. This interview took place less than two months into the pandemic. The issues it raised persisted for months afterwards. Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmMlTrNbud8
Learn more about the City of Toronto’s Task Force on COVID Vaccines at https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/di/bgrd/backgroundfile-167074.pdf About AMI
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