Ability Alliance with Allies and Advocates (A4)
The Ability Alliance with Allies and Advocates is a new Employee Resource Group created to provide a networked community of DePaul University employees with disabilities, and their allies and advocates, for the purpose of support, education, and change with a focus on building a workplace that welcomes employees with differing abilities.
Executive Board Members
Kelly Tzoumis:
ktzoumis@depaul.edu (Visiting Scholar 2022-2023)
Kent Klaus:
kklaus1@depaul.edu
Elizabeth Vastine:
ejvastine@gmail.com
Maija Renko:
maija.renko@depaul.edu
Staff
Erin Roux: eroux1@depaul.edu
Meeting Schedule
The winter quarter meeting for A4 will be held on Friday, January 21 from 10:30 am- 12:00 p.m. Please use this link o register: A4 Meeting Registration
Below please find more information from Kent Klaus and Kelly Tzoumis that was covered during the initial A4 meeting that took place on May 26, 2021.
You
can also view the beginning of the September 24, 2021, A4 meeting, below.
Survey
We encourage our DePaul community members to complete this A4 survey which will help provide guidance for moving forward and building community at DePaul.
Please contact Kelly Tzoumis ktzoumis@depaul.edu with any questions.
From the Periphery BUILD Session
On May 20, 2021, we were honored to have Pia Justesen, a Danish human rights lawyer, facilitate a BUILD session about her book, From the Periphery . This book details around 40 first-person narratives of people in the United States who explain what it's like to be treated differently by society because of visible and invisible disabilities. Please click below to view the recording.