Amplifying Accessibility in the Arts with Elizabeth Ralston, Founder of the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium

22/10/2025 38 min Temporada 1 Episodio 7

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Elizabeth Ralston is a consultant with lived disability experience, who guides organizations in the strategic development of an accessibility roadmap, with an emphasis on equity and inclusion. She has a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan and a certificate of Nonprofit Management from the University of Washington. Her expertise is in accessibility planning and audits, program development, strategic communications, and event implementation. Elizabeth is also the Founder of the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium (SCAC), a grassroots effort to help arts and cultural organizations improve accessibility for their audiences. Sign up for their newsletter to keep up with SCAC’s work, and to learn more about their recent Deep Dive Day, a conference that provided arts and culture organizations with tools to incorporate accessible offerings into their programs - https://www.seattlecac.org/getinvolved If you enjoyed the podcast, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Mirror Stage via our website at mirrorstage.org/donate and follow us on social media. Learn more about us on socials: Facebook: http://facebook.com/mirrorstage Instagram: http://instagram.com/mirrorstagewa A machine-readable transcript of the episode is available here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/14qysqN4iMgfOjQrJ3M_3seSxsUnOgVDkmgBTShsQ3BA/edit?usp=sharing Episodes release on the fourth Wednesday of the month. See you in November! All music by Benjamin Marx and Lee Rosevere.