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Welcome to the 2021 TASH Conference - Virtual Edition website!

Each year, the TASH Conference brings together individuals with significant disabilities and their allies to share resources and success stories, learn about field-driven best practices, and network within a community engaged in shared values. The conference is attended by passionate advocates, leaders, and subject matter experts from every corner of the disability community. Conference attendees play an important role in supporting individuals with significant disabilities to overcome various barriers in order to live their best lives. Central to this work is the premise that individuals reach their optimal potential only when they are given the opportunity to live, work and thrive across the lifespan in the same communities we are all members of. The Conference is intentionally designed to support the interests of professors and researchers from leading institutions; those involved in local, state, and federal governments and public policy; special and general educators, and school administrators; home and community-based service providers; students, family members, and most importantly, self-advocates with lived experience.

This year, while we are taking the Conference virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we believe that our unique approach to providing exceptional first-rate content and building strong community ties and connections across various stakeholders will yield an extraordinary event! We have taken extra steps to bring people closer together during these times, as well as to create an amazing virtual environment that expands our knowledge and spurs our creative thinking into action!  Our Conference theme, Celebrating Community and Connections, reminds us of the value of gathering together as a diverse community to advance equity, opportunity and inclusion for all!

Need technical assistance during the conference? Please email our support staff at helpdesk@tash.org.

The 2021 TASH Conference is dedicated to TASH co-founder, Dr. Lou Brown. Learn more about Lou’s impact and legacy to the disability rights movement here.

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Sunday, December 5 • 11:30am - 12:15pm
In·ter·sec·tion·al·i·ty The Pieces of ME!

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If not us, then who? Who could tell our stories? Who could speak truth to power? Who could create a space that would not only cultivate but foster love and understanding? Intersectionality; The Pieces of ME is a series of community conversations curated by people with disabilities, their family members, and friends about their lives and unspoken realities. This series is about enlightening those who have heard about intersectionality but didn't understand it, couldn’t imagine it, didn’t believe in it. We aim to make it come to light in front of everyone through the power of storytelling! Our sessions included stories about emergency preparedness, sexuality, faith, creativity, as well as the need to knows of intersectionality. Come learn about how two friends partnered with a local non-profit to unpack the world of intersectionality.
Presenters
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Jeiri Flores

Advocacy Specialist, University of Rochester / Starbridge
Jeiri Flores is a strong, passionate Puerto Rican disability rights activist from Rochester, NY. She earned her Bachelors’s Degree in the study of Sociology and African-American Studies at SUNY Brockport in 2014. She is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree in Human Development... Read More →
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Sabrina Smith

University of Rochester
First time attending the TASH conference.  Exciting and looking forward to a great conference and making new connections.

Sunday December 5, 2021 11:30am - 12:15pm EST
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  Breakout Sessions

Attendees (35)