@Risk S203 – No Substitute for Lived Experience

And I’ve realized in my work in the last five years that there is not… There's a lot of health policy people and there's a lot of disability people, but there's not a lot of people who do both disability and health policy. [...] And so because I was working there and because of the pandemic and this sort of lack of crossover, I began working on some of the forecasting what some of the issues might be for people with disabilities in the pandemic. [...] And so I used a lot of my work on vaccine accessibility in the past, a lot of work on accessibility and sort of my knowledge in health policy to start advocating. [...] Jodi: So this is the @Risk podcast, so I wanted to ask you have you ever, in terms of the incredibly rich topics that you’ve been engaged in and studied and throughout your advocacy work, have you ever used the vocabulary of risk or the mindset of risk in thinking about these issues? Sara: Yeah, I think that recently we’ve talked… A lot of people like to use the word vulnerable to describe people. [...] And so any role that can allow me to do that and have impact, both for people with disabilities and for inclusion in general, is something I want to do and be a part of.