Lauren Shallish writes on the stigma towards disabled people in education and the workforce and why creating accessibility benefits everyone.
Lauren Shallish
Dr. Lauren Shallish is an Associate Professor of Critical Disability Studies in Education in the Urban Education Department. Her research examines the hyper-labeling of multiply-minoritized students and how constructs of ability and dis/ability are framed in higher education equity work. Her work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Disability & Society, the Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, SPARK: The Online Magazine for the National Center for Institutional Diversity, Women's Reproductive Health, and The Educational Forum. Invited book chapters include publications in DisCrit Expanded: Inquiries, Reverberations, & Ruptures, Disability as Diversity in Higher Education, and Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies.

