Writing and Media
Essays and interviews on structural ableism and the design of accommodation systems.
Writing
Why Your Accommodation Process Is Costing You Top Talent
Article — LinkedIn
An analysis of how workplace accommodation systems drift from collaborative problem-solving into adversarial compliance, and what effective institutional design requires instead.
Ableism Nearly Killed Me — Recognizing It Saved My Life
Essay — Medium (Human Parts)
An account of living with Just-Right obsessive-compulsive disorder, navigating failed accommodations in two institutions, and reframing those failures as structural rather than personal.
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Karin Boxer
Written interview — Biopolitical Philosophy
A wide-ranging conversation on moral responsibility, structural ableism in academia, accommodation failures, and the institutional norms that shape exclusion.
Media
Understanding Ableism
Podcast Interview — Start Where You Are – Stop Thinking, Start Doing (Kim Lloyd)
A conversation on ableism as a structural belief system, how it shapes workplace and academic expectations, and the costs of accommodation failure for both disabled people and institutions.
Adding Structure to the Interactive Process
Video Interview — Disability Idea (with Myles Wallace, Peak Performers)
A conversation on why the ADA interactive process fails in practice and how structural redesign — including employer-led identification of accommodations, consultation with appropriate expertise, and structured iteration and follow-up — changes outcomes.
Karin Speaks to Morgan About “Just-Right” OCD
Audio Conversation · StoryCorps (More About Us Community Disability Visibility Project)
A conversation on navigating academia, publish-or-perish norms, and faculty accommodation gaps.