Podcast Episodes

Show Notes About the Guest(s): Alida Miranda-Wolff is the CEO and founder of Ethos, a consultancy firm specializing in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) transformation. She is notable for her book, “Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations that Last,” which explores strategies for fostering inclusive environments. Alida’s background spans higher education at the University […]

Show Notes What is Critical Race Theory and what do advocates for inclusive education need to know about the Anti-CRT movement? For this super-sized episode, we share the story of an inclusive Maryland principal who was pushed out of taking a job as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Director in Cherokee County, Georgia. A devastating

Diana Pastora Carson is the host of the Beyond Awareness Podcast. Her TedTalk, “Walking with Joaquin,” chronicles her family’s journey to bring home her brother after living in an institution for 15 years.  She joins us on Think Inclusive to talk about her journey as an educator who advocated for inclusive education, what it’s like

Today on the podcast, we welcome Greta Harrison, the host of the Born Fabulous Podcast. We talk about the reason for starting “Born Fabulous,” why hope should be an essential characteristic of an educator, and the goal of inclusion is always life in the community.  This episode’s transcript can be found here. Take our podcast

Happy Friday Inclusionists! Today we have a special pop-up podcast interview with some folks I met at the CEC Conference in Orlando this week.   They presented a session called, “The Intersection of Race and Disability: Where Do We Go from Here?”  I think it is an important reminder for us that inclusion and equity

Today on the podcast, we welcome Amanda Darrow (Utah Pride Center) and Shamby Polychronis (University of Utah) to talk about honoring intersectionality between the disability and LGBTQIA+ communities.  We cover a lot of ground including the difference between gender/sexuality/sex, pronouns, stats on people who identify as both LGBTQIA+ and disabled, and ways educators can make

Happy Holidays! To finish off 2021, we are featuring four interviews. One that you haven’t heard yet, Lou Brown, and three that you might have caught in our feed if you’ve been listening for a while: Katie Novak, Alfie Kohn, Cheryl Jorgensen. The first is a previously unpublished clip from my 2019 interview with the

Today on the podcast, we talk with Anthony Ianni, the first autistic Division 1 college basketball player and author of the book, Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete’s Dream.  We talk about what it was like growing up, not knowing about his autism diagnosis until high school, playing for the Michigan State basketball team, and

Content Warning: In today’s episode, we will discuss depictions of the living conditions of institutions for people with disabilities in the 1960s and certain attitudes about people with disabilities that worked there. Today on the podcast, we talk to Howard Shane, author of the book Unsilenced, associate professional at the Harvard Medical School, and the

Today on the podcast, we discuss the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (otherwise known as the SDLMI).  Our guests, Karrie Shogren and Sheida Raley are both from the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities.  We talk about what self-determination really means, what is the SDLMI and how it is implemented in inclusive classrooms, and why