Writing and Media
Writing
Why Your Accommodation Process Is Costing You Top Talent
Article — LinkedIn
An analysis of how workplace accommodation processes can shift from collaborative problem-solving into employee-proposal review—and how that failure contributes to preventable conflict and talent loss.
The article examines responsibility for identifying accommodations, the expertise used in the process, assumptions about essential functions, and the need to continue searching when an initial proposal does not work.
Ableism Nearly Killed Me — Recognizing It Saved My Life
Essay —Medium (Human Parts)
A personal account of living and working with Just Right obsessive-compulsive disorder, navigating failed accommodations in higher education, and eventually recognizing those experiences as structural rather than personal failure.
The essay examines rigid definitions of productivity and professional success, the harm caused when ableism remains unnamed, and the importance of creating alternative ways for disabled people to contribute.
Media
Adding Structure to the Interactive Process
Video interview · Disability Idea with Myles Wallace
A conversation about why the ADA interactive process often fails to function as collaborative problem-solving and what a more structured accommodation search would require.
We discuss the burden placed on employees to identify solutions, the limitations of relying primarily on medical expertise, the analysis of essential functions, and the need for continued iteration when an initial accommodation does not work.
Understanding Ableism
Podcast interview · Start Where You Are—Stop Thinking, Start Doing with Kim Lloyd
A discussion of ableism as a structural system, how assumptions about normalcy and competence become embedded in institutions, and why barriers produced by institutional design are so often interpreted as individual weakness or failure.