Dr. Rheanna Robinson, with the Accessibility Ambassadors Initiative and UNBC’s Office of Equity & Inclusion combined efforts to deliver the fourth annual Red Shirt Day event on UNBC campus. This year featured the best turnout so far, an opportunity to network, and a number of presentations that boldly advocated for increased accessibility both on campus and in our community.
Lheidli T’enneh elder Phyllis Seymour led the event with an emotional story of her experience as a parent adapting to an environment unprepared to incorporate her son’s disability following an accident. With the audience rapt, a review of the University’s Accessibility Plan was unveiled before the keynote speaker, Kaho Michihara began.
Michihara, a Master of Social Work student, shared her numerous visually impaired experiences of both academia and northern BC. She shared her perspective of both the value and pitfalls of our public transit system to CFUR, and drive home the value of increased awareness concerning both accessibility and inclusion.
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CFUR Radio Society’s journalist, Ian Gregg is funded by the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI) through the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC).