Boldly Challenging Ableism
- Presenter(s)
- Katrina O Simons
Description
Boldly Challenging Ableism exposes ableism and dismantles myths that marginalize people with disabilities. Host Katrina Simons draws on her lifelong disability and her advocacy experience at the University of Minnesota's Institute on Community Integration to boldly and irreverently go where everyone has gone before—to issues such as employment, housing, justice, education, and culture. She brings enough humor and an approachable style that you'll think anew about what community inclusion really means.
Boldly Challenging Ableism is both a radio broadcast and a podcast.
Details
- Date
- 7/21/2026
In publication since 5/18/2025 - Type
- Podcast
- Publisher
- Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota
- Collaborators
- AM950 Radio
Products
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 2, Episode 10: Inside the High School Classroom with Science Teacher Emma (Part 2 of 2)
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 2, Episode 9: Inside the High School Classroom with Science Teacher Emma (Part 1 of 2)
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 2, Episode 8: A Decades-Long Legacy of Advocacy with Linda Wolford (Part 2 of 2)
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 2, Episode 7: A Decades-Long Legacy of Advocacy with Linda Wolford (Part 1 of 2)
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 2, Episode 6: The Red Tape of Accessible Living with Nick Wilkie (Part 2 of 2)
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 2, Episode 5: The Red Tape of Accessible Living with Nick Wilkie (Part 1 of 2)
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 2, Episode 4: Navigating Neurodiversity and Self Advocacy with Adam Ruff
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 2, Episode 3: Faith, Mental Health, and Finding Your Voice with Guest Joe Carr
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 2, Episode 2: Fighting for Better Air Travel Standards with Rob Wudlick
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 2, Episode 1: Raising Team Felix with Haley Brunelle and the Magic of AAC
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 18: Michael Sack on Keeping the Twin Cities Accessible and Disability Advocate Ed Bartz
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 17: Artist and Self-Advocate Thomas Robinson
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 16: Renáta Tichá, Research Associate, ICI at the U of MN
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 15: Rebelling Against Ableism with BJ Stasio
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 14: Amy Hewitt, Director, Institute on Community Integration
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 12: Jen Sommerness on Ableism in Education
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 11: Katherine McLaughlin, Founder and CEO, Elevatus Training
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 10: Jake Hamilton
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 9: Parenting and Confronting Ableism with Nikki Villavicencio
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 8: Chris Farrell on Disability, Employment, and Money
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 7: Kathy Ware on how Systems and Disabilities Interact (Part 2)
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 6: Kathy Ware on how Systems and Disabilities Interact (Part 1)
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 5: Matt McClean on Living as a Disabled Transgender Man
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 4: Brian Begin on Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 3: Inclusive Learning Beyond High School with Mary Hauff and Dupree Edwards
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 2: Ableism and Etiquette Rules with Joe Carr
- Boldly Challenging Ableism: Season 1, Episode 1: Jillian Nelson of the Autism Society of Minnesota
Topics
- Community life
- Civil rights
- Self-advocacy and self-determination