Disability Lead

Join us for Our Stories, a virtual storytelling event featuring Members from our Network of 300+ positive disruptors.

Storytelling has the power to challenge assumptions, deepen understanding, and build stronger, more inclusive communities.

✨ Featuring:
1️⃣Jon Haven (Fellow, 2025)
2️⃣Liliana Schiller (Fellow, 2025)
3️⃣Timotheus “TJ” Gordon Jr. (Fellow, 2022)

Event Details:

🗓 Date: June 25, 2026
⏰ Time: 12:00–1:00 PM CT
💻 Location: Zoom Webinar

When we elevate authentic stories, we build deeper understanding and real connection.

✅ ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided.
📩 Additional accommodations available upon request.
We hope you’ll join us for this meaningful conversation— register today!

Register here: https://www.disabilitylead.org//events/our-stories-june2026

This May, Disability Lead continues to raise awareness and honor the diversity of disabilities within the disability community. Together, we are working towards a more inclusive future that embraces diversity, equity, accessibility, and the collective power of our community.



Note: All slides have a peach background with the Disability logo with the text, “Power. Influence.
Change.” beneath it at the top with center alignment. Image 1 reads, "Disability Awareness Month and Days May Twenty Twenty-Six." The bottom portion of the graphic features people of various races and disabilities. (All of the following graphics list disability awareness days and months in between partial graphics of a wall calendar coming from the top right and bottom left corners.)

Image 2: Lists "ALS Awareness Month, Apraxia Awareness Month, American Stroke Month, Arthritis Awareness Month, Better Speech and Hearing Month, Bladder Cancer Awareness Month".

Image 3: Lists "Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month, Brain Tumor Awareness Month, Celiac Awareness Month, Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) Month".

Image 4: Lists "Fibromyalgia Awareness Month, Hepatitis Awareness Month, High Blood Pressure Education Month, Huntington's Disease Awareness Month, Lupus Awareness Month".

Image 5: Lists "Lyme Disease Awareness Month, Mental Health Awareness Month, Mobility Awareness Month, Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month, Myositis Awareness Month".

Image 6: Lists "National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, Deaf Awareness Week: May 4-10, Face Equality Week: May 11-15, National Eosinophil Awareness Week: May 17-23".

Image 7: Lists "International 5p Syndrome Awareness Day: May 5, World Asthma Day: May 5, International Day for Osteogenesis Imperfecta: May 6, National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day: May 7".

Image 8: Lists "World Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day: May 8, World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day: May 8, Ependymoma Awareness Day: May 10, World Lupus Day: May 10".

Image 9: Lists "International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND) Day: May 12, Mental Health Action Day: May 14, International Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) Awareness Day: May 15".

Image 10: Lists "International Behcet's Disease Awareness Day: May 20, International Blue Cone Monochromacy Awareness Day: May 20, World Autoimmune Arthritis Day: May 20, Global Accessibility Awareness Day: May 21".

Image 11: Lists "International Day to End Obstetric Fistula: May 23, National Schizophrenia and Psychosis Awareness Day: May 24, World Thyroid Day: May 25, World Multiple Sclerosis Day: May 30".

🗳️Vote for Disability Lead!

We have submitted a session proposal to take the stage at --an annual event that brings together a global audience of funders and founders, plus others aiming to drive meaningful impact--taking place October 12-14 in Chicago.

Our topic is "Why Disabled Leadership Is the Infrastructure We Keep Overlooking" featuring our Members Nakia Green, Christina Armstrong, and CEO Emily Blum. Disabled people are the world’s largest minority and among the most underrepresented in leadership across every sector. This is a structural issue, not a pipeline problem. In our session, we will reframe real challenge SOCAP attendees are facing around disability inclusion. How? We will invite attendees to consider, "What changes when you start at the top?" Attendees leave with a practical lens, concrete questions, and connections to peers ready to move from commitment to action.

Let's make disability leadership the topic of conversation at SOCAP 2026! Voting ends THIS Sunday, April 26. Click here to vote for our session: https://socapglobal.com/session-idea/the-missing-multiplier-why-disabled-leadership-is-the-infrastructure-we-keep-overlooking/

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