Universal Design expert planner. Keynote speeches + workshops on how to create a better built environment for people with disabilities. Award-winning storyteller creating content for major nonprofits and corporations.
Cannot think of a better way of reconnecting communities, than injecting Universal Design into policy, practice and projects. One of the biggest barriers to multimodal transportation and pedestrian mobility is the lack of Universal Design in the built environment. A person with a disability cannot access the world's greatest Bus Rapid Transit, Commuter Light Rail, Autonomous Vehicle Fleet or even cross the street to get to a park -- if sidewalks are blocked, broken, incomplete or just plain too narrow for a wheelchair user to use safely. Transportation networks are only as good as the connectivity that facilitates mobility by all people of all abilities. I look forward to holistic projects that erase ableist design that segregates, isolates and does injustice to 60+ million people with disabilities.
Cadmus has been awarded up to $27 million to establish and administer the U.S. Department of Transportation's Reconnecting Communities Institute (RCI). Under this contract, the RCI will serve as the Build America Bureau’s center for learning and capacity building, empowering communities to develop and execute reconnection projects. #reconnectingcommunities #transportationplanning https://hubs.la/Q02sjtpy0