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Webinar – Disability in Indigenous Communities

Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET

Blue and green graphic for the Disability Equity Series webinar entitled Disability in Indigenous Communities. The date of the event is November 14, 2024 at 1:00pm ET. Featuring photos of moderator Carly Hare, Jen Deerinwater, and Héctor Manuel Ramírez. The webinar is presented by the Disability & Philanthropy Forum and Native Americans in Philanthropy.

Three in ten Indigenous people are living with a disability in the United States. However, funding for disability rights and justice represented only one cent of every $10 in foundation grants awarded in 2019, and only 0.46% of grant dollars awarded by U.S. foundations in 2016 explicitly benefited Native Americans. Philanthropy must take action to consistently and significantly fund inclusion, rights, and justice led by disabled Indigenous communities.

In this webinar, disabled Indigenous leaders will share their knowledge and lived experiences at the intersection of disability justice and Indigenous self-determination. Learn how philanthropy can follow the leadership of disabled Indigenous people in order to support justice for Indigenous communities, people with disabilities, and everyone who exists at the intersection.

CART and ASL interpretation will be provided. If you require another accommodation to fully participate in the webinar, please note it in your registration, or contact us at communications@disabilityphilanthropy.org. This free webinar is presented by the Disability & Philanthropy Forum, in partnership with Native Americans in Philanthropy.

About the Panelists

Carly Hare, an Indigenous woman with blunt cut bangs and brown shoulder length hair, wearing a black wrap dress standing on a winding staircase. She is partially smirking/smiling at the camera.

Moderator: Carly Hare, Portfolio Director and Senior Director of Advancing Equity, The Colorado Health Foundation

Carly Hare (Pawnee/Yankton) is committed to advancing equity and community engagement. She is a proud mother, daughter, sister, auntie, partner, friend, and equity advocate. Her Pawnee name is <i kita u hoo <i ]a hiks, ‘kind leader of men’.

Carly serves as a portfolio director and senior director of advancing equity at the Colorado Health Foundation. Previously, Hare navigated the intersections of philanthropy and equity as the National Director of CHANGE Philanthropy and led Native Americans in Philanthropy as its Executive Director.

Jen Deerinwater, a white coded femme presenting person with black glasses, brown, wavy, shoulder-length hair worn down, sits in a park with stone masonry and trees behind hir. Jen’s left fist is raised in the air, exposing tattoos and a Native designed bangle bracelet. Hir right hand is holding onto one side of a Native made beaded medallion with the Crushing Colonialism logo in the center. Jen is wearing a black, short sleeve shirt and large, yellow earrings.

Panelist: Jen Deerinwater, Founding Executive Director, Crushing Colonialism

Jen Deerinwater is a bisexual, Two-Spirit, multiply-disabled, citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and an award-winning journalist and organizer who covers the myriad of issues hir communities face with an intersectional lens. Jen is the founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism and a 2019 New Economies Reporting Project and 2020 Disability Futures fellow. Jen is a contributor at Truthout and hir work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including several anthologies, such as Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty First Century and Crip Authorship: Disability as Method. Jen is currently editing the anthology, Sacred and Subversive (Jessica Kingsley Publishers).

Héctor has long hair pulled back in a ponytail, and their black hair now has streaks of gray. Héctor is wearing a red shirt that reads "United Farm Workers" and has a redwood pendant tied around their neck with a string.

Panelist: Héctor Manuel Ramírez, Inter-Tribal Disability Advocacy Council

Héctor Manuel Ramírez (they/them) is a member of the Inter-Tribal Disability Advocacy Council (IDAC), established in 2023 by the Native American Disability Law Center (NADLC) and Borealis Philanthropy, they amplify Indigenous American voices with disabilities. Héctor is of Apache & Mexican descent, Two-Spirit, Autistic, DV & psychiatric survivor, hard of hearing, & Long COVID. Héctor resides in Tongva (Los Angeles, California)-unceded ancestral lands of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians. Héctor serves on the California Commission on Disability Access Los Angeles County Commission on Disabilities and is an emeritus board member with the National Disability Rights Network and Disability Rights California.