Hosted by DJA team members, this is a space for Disabled journalists to come together for support, information-sharing, and community building. This month’s event is being hosted on July 30 from 6-8 PM Eastern and will focus on a professional development presentation led by DJA team member Sean Kelly.

One of the biggest barriers facing newsrooms today is making their content accessible to Disabled audiences and Disabled talent within their organizations. In this presentation, DJA team member Sean Kelly will lead participants through the foundations of accessible social media through the lens of journalism. Having worked as an editor, non-profit founder, communications director, and author, Kelly has extensive experience with making content accessible and is looking forward to helping ensure the industry is just a little more inclusive at the end of this event.

As a rule, all information shared among group members in these meetings should remain private and contained to the meeting space. Group members who are concerned about security and privacy should feel free to use an alternate name or otherwise remain anonymous. Group members should feel comfortable participating with the cameras off and/or through the chat function if necessary. The meeting may be recorded with the permission of those in attendance to help improve DJA’ educational offerings and to be provided in future to program participants.

This call will be CART captioned (or, in the unusual event of CART provider absence, auto-captioned through Zoom). Please let us know below if you require any other accommodations (described in registration intake form).

Click here to register for the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3aiBWLx8Q6a9Muv9A5exGA

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Please reach out to ariana.martinez@discojourno.com if you have questions about access or other aspects of this meeting space.