Description
The Center for Disability Justice Research: Health Equity, Education, and Creativity (CDJR) is a multi-disciplinary hub for faculty, staff, students, and community members working to advance disability justice at Cal State East Bay and in the broader community. The mission of our collective network is to promote equity through radically inclusive teaching, scholarship, and advocacy.
Current Projects
- Think by the Bay, a new inclusive post-secondary education program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have been historically excluded from higher education. Think by the Bay is in urgent need of donations to sustain and support program operations, including a program coordinator, peer mentors, and activities and events. Write TBTB in the "please tell us why you gave" field on the donation form to designate funds for this purpose.
- Join us for our first ever Disability Justice Week March 17-20, 2025, featuring a discussion with Dr. Sunaura Taylor, author of Disabled Ecologies, a Disability Cultural Center for a day pop-up, a virtual panel on intersections of racial justice, design justice, and disability justice, and lighting presentations by CSUEB faculty, staff, and students.
- Supported Decision Making (SDM) Outreach Team. SDM is a less restrictive alternative to conservatorship that allows people with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) to retain their adult rights. CDJR received a grant from the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities to conduct education and outreach about SDM to professionals who work with people with I/DD. We are pleased to be partnering with Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) on this project.
- Inclusive performance opportunities including the Wandering Ensemble and Inclusive Interdiscplinary Ensemble
- Project Aspire, an interprofessional training program for students from Educational Psychology and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
- An Accessibility and Inclusion Ideathon in Spring 2023, organized collaboratively by CDJR, the Women in Leadership Forum, and the Smith Center
- Disability Justice Book Clubs involving faculty from across our campus. In Spring 2023, we read Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. In Spring 2024, we read Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong.
Why are donations necessary?
We rely on donations to support student assistant stipends, events, outreach, social media, and web development. As we become more established, we hope to use funds to build mini grant programs for faculty and students engaged in disability justice research and a scholarship programs for students with disabilities.