WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.475 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:00:02.475 --> 00:00:11.390 align:middle line:90% 00:00:11.390 --> 00:00:14.205 align:middle line:84% Pursuit of a More Equitable World College 00:00:14.205 --> 00:00:14.705 align:middle line:90% and Careers. 00:00:14.705 --> 00:00:17.505 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:00:17.505 --> 00:00:35.210 align:middle line:90% 00:00:35.210 --> 00:00:36.980 align:middle line:84% An excerpt from John Kemp's keynote 00:00:36.980 --> 00:00:38.830 align:middle line:84% address at the University of Washington. 00:00:38.830 --> 00:00:41.142 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:00:41.142 --> 00:00:42.303 align:middle line:90% 00:00:42.303 --> 00:00:44.470 align:middle line:84% Thanks to all of you for coming. 00:00:44.470 --> 00:00:45.910 align:middle line:90% Good afternoon. 00:00:45.910 --> 00:00:47.470 align:middle line:84% I'm Sheryl Burgstahler, the founder 00:00:47.470 --> 00:00:49.360 align:middle line:84% and director of the DO-IT Center, 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:51.930 align:middle line:84% where do it stands for disabilities, opportunities, 00:00:51.930 --> 00:00:53.980 align:middle line:84% internet working, and technology. 00:00:53.980 --> 00:00:58.300 align:middle line:84% In DO-IT, we work to increase the academic and career success 00:00:58.300 --> 00:01:02.230 align:middle line:84% of individuals with disabilities and make physical spaces, 00:01:02.230 --> 00:01:05.440 align:middle line:84% student services teaching and learning activities, 00:01:05.440 --> 00:01:09.070 align:middle line:84% and technology more welcoming and accessible to people 00:01:09.070 --> 00:01:10.653 align:middle line:90% with disabilities. 00:01:10.653 --> 00:01:12.070 align:middle line:84% I have the pleasure of introducing 00:01:12.070 --> 00:01:16.720 align:middle line:84% our keynote speaker, and his name is John Kemp. 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:19.840 align:middle line:84% I met him around the time when I founded the DO-IT Center, which 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:21.470 align:middle line:90% is like more than 25 years ago. 00:01:21.470 --> 00:01:24.730 align:middle line:84% And we've sort of been traveling in similar circles, so it's 00:01:24.730 --> 00:01:27.670 align:middle line:84% really, especially nice for me to have you here, John. 00:01:27.670 --> 00:01:30.130 align:middle line:84% So I've always been impressed with his personal insights 00:01:30.130 --> 00:01:32.770 align:middle line:84% about the history of disability rights, 00:01:32.770 --> 00:01:34.960 align:middle line:84% parallels between this movement and others 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:39.670 align:middle line:84% that improve our world by more fully engaging people 00:01:39.670 --> 00:01:43.690 align:middle line:84% from all different groups, benefiting 00:01:43.690 --> 00:01:47.620 align:middle line:84% from their diverse talents and perspectives. 00:01:47.620 --> 00:01:50.050 align:middle line:84% He's been an ally of DO-IT and other organizations 00:01:50.050 --> 00:01:52.630 align:middle line:84% that serve to create a more inclusive world, 00:01:52.630 --> 00:01:55.900 align:middle line:84% and he's even mentored a few of the DO-IT scholars. 00:01:55.900 --> 00:01:59.230 align:middle line:84% He is a renowned disability rights leader 00:01:59.230 --> 00:02:01.920 align:middle line:84% who co-founded the Americans Association of People 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.500 align:middle line:84% with Disabilities and is now the president and chief executive 00:02:05.500 --> 00:02:08.380 align:middle line:84% of a network of nonprofit organizations 00:02:08.380 --> 00:02:11.800 align:middle line:84% that provide services that educate, employ, 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.980 align:middle line:84% and empower children and adults with disabilities. 00:02:14.980 --> 00:02:17.560 align:middle line:84% His talk today is titled "Then and Now-- 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:19.630 align:middle line:84% People with Disabilities and Our Pursuit 00:02:19.630 --> 00:02:21.880 align:middle line:90% of a More Equitable World." 00:02:21.880 --> 00:02:24.040 align:middle line:84% So will you please join me in welcoming 00:02:24.040 --> 00:02:25.410 align:middle line:90% John Kemp to the podium? 00:02:25.410 --> 00:02:27.835 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:27.835 --> 00:02:38.030 align:middle line:90% 00:02:38.030 --> 00:02:40.580 align:middle line:84% All right, good afternoon. 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:41.425 align:middle line:90% All good? 00:02:41.425 --> 00:02:43.650 align:middle line:90% All good. 00:02:43.650 --> 00:02:46.200 align:middle line:84% I have been a huge fan of DO-IT 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:49.380 align:middle line:84% and talk about DO-IT in various speeches around the country 00:02:49.380 --> 00:02:53.040 align:middle line:84% and certainly talked about it at the Council of Graduate Schools 00:02:53.040 --> 00:02:57.120 align:middle line:84% in Arizona in December and really got 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.940 align:middle line:84% to meet some people from the University of Washington, 00:02:59.940 --> 00:03:01.560 align:middle line:84% and we sort of reconnected again. 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:06.750 align:middle line:84% But I must say, this is one of the classiest, smartest, 00:03:06.750 --> 00:03:10.710 align:middle line:84% most forward looking programs in the United States. 00:03:10.710 --> 00:03:12.960 align:middle line:84% So whether you're thinking you're 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:16.230 align:middle line:84% all out here on an island and you're not connected, 00:03:16.230 --> 00:03:18.150 align:middle line:84% and you're this and that, you're far from it. 00:03:18.150 --> 00:03:24.242 align:middle line:84% You are totally in front of the crowd of young students, 00:03:24.242 --> 00:03:25.950 align:middle line:84% high school students and college students 00:03:25.950 --> 00:03:27.690 align:middle line:84% who are looking to prepare themselves 00:03:27.690 --> 00:03:31.680 align:middle line:84% for real, competitive, integrated, inclusive 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:36.000 align:middle line:84% employment, and that you are getting the access 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.100 align:middle line:84% to the technologies that will enable 00:03:38.100 --> 00:03:40.470 align:middle line:90% you to be able to do that. 00:03:40.470 --> 00:03:43.530 align:middle line:84% Some of it you are probably creating yourself, 00:03:43.530 --> 00:03:46.590 align:middle line:84% and it's certainly an era of personalization 00:03:46.590 --> 00:03:49.680 align:middle line:90% and customization in technology. 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.520 align:middle line:84% What I so admire about DO-IT is that you don't accept anything 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:59.100 align:middle line:84% less than the encouragement to thrive in your academic careers 00:03:59.100 --> 00:04:02.520 align:middle line:90% and in your employment careers. 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:04.860 align:middle line:84% It's this idea that we're in this transition 00:04:04.860 --> 00:04:08.550 align:middle line:84% age of 20 to 30 years, where people with disabilities 00:04:08.550 --> 00:04:12.450 align:middle line:84% may or may not get the kinds of services they properly need. 00:04:12.450 --> 00:04:14.050 align:middle line:90% That's not good enough for me. 00:04:14.050 --> 00:04:16.440 align:middle line:84% It's not good enough for our students. 00:04:16.440 --> 00:04:18.990 align:middle line:84% We want to be able to thrive just like everybody else, 00:04:18.990 --> 00:04:19.800 align:middle line:90% right? 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:22.019 align:middle line:84% This is what we want very, very much. 00:04:22.019 --> 00:04:24.204 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:04:24.204 --> 00:04:25.520 align:middle line:90% 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:32.180 align:middle line:84% Today, we have the largest number of college graduates 00:04:32.180 --> 00:04:35.960 align:middle line:84% with disabilities who are unemployed ever 00:04:35.960 --> 00:04:38.960 align:middle line:84% in the history of the United States. 00:04:38.960 --> 00:04:41.060 align:middle line:84% We've done a better and better and better 00:04:41.060 --> 00:04:45.380 align:middle line:84% job of getting students with disabilities 00:04:45.380 --> 00:04:49.040 align:middle line:84% through high school, through college, 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:52.430 align:middle line:90% and they can't get a job. 00:04:52.430 --> 00:04:56.420 align:middle line:84% And that is a disgrace for our country. 00:04:56.420 --> 00:04:58.600 align:middle line:90% We're better than that. 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:01.790 align:middle line:84% And we haven't quite figured out the underlying issue 00:05:01.790 --> 00:05:05.210 align:middle line:84% when we compare ourselves to other minority groups 00:05:05.210 --> 00:05:08.310 align:middle line:84% and other protected class groups, 00:05:08.310 --> 00:05:11.360 align:middle line:84% why is it that we lag so significantly far 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.920 align:middle line:90% behind in our employment rate? 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:17.620 align:middle line:90% 00:05:17.620 --> 00:05:21.310 align:middle line:84% There's something deeply embedded in our society 00:05:21.310 --> 00:05:25.870 align:middle line:84% that does not allow an employer or people, just generally. 00:05:25.870 --> 00:05:28.630 align:middle line:84% Employers are people, too, right? 00:05:28.630 --> 00:05:31.330 align:middle line:84% But why do employers not perceive us 00:05:31.330 --> 00:05:33.820 align:middle line:90% as having capabilities? 00:05:33.820 --> 00:05:36.510 align:middle line:90% Why? 00:05:36.510 --> 00:05:38.700 align:middle line:84% So much of it is really based on all 00:05:38.700 --> 00:05:43.050 align:middle line:84% of the glitter and glam that our chairs 00:05:43.050 --> 00:05:48.150 align:middle line:84% and our scooters and our canes and our prosthetics 00:05:48.150 --> 00:05:51.870 align:middle line:84% and everything else that we present 00:05:51.870 --> 00:05:54.120 align:middle line:84% causes them to think that we can't 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:56.670 align:middle line:84% do a job that they have predetermined 00:05:56.670 --> 00:06:00.050 align:middle line:90% how it should be done. 00:06:00.050 --> 00:06:03.670 align:middle line:84% Hopefully, we're in an era now where 00:06:03.670 --> 00:06:06.580 align:middle line:84% it's not so much how you do a job. 00:06:06.580 --> 00:06:10.540 align:middle line:84% It is you tell me what the outcomes you want 00:06:10.540 --> 00:06:14.560 align:middle line:84% and the quality expectations that you have 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.560 align:middle line:84% and the quantity and all the other characteristics 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:19.660 align:middle line:84% that you want to measure, and we get 00:06:19.660 --> 00:06:22.150 align:middle line:84% to do it whether we do it at 2 o'clock in the morning, 00:06:22.150 --> 00:06:25.060 align:middle line:84% or it takes us two or three extra hours to do it, 00:06:25.060 --> 00:06:29.090 align:middle line:84% the outcome measurements can be adjusted. 00:06:29.090 --> 00:06:33.130 align:middle line:84% But for some reason, because people 00:06:33.130 --> 00:06:38.800 align:middle line:84% who are in power positions perceive people 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.900 align:middle line:84% with disabilities as unable to be 00:06:40.900 --> 00:06:43.630 align:middle line:84% able to perform the jobs that are there 00:06:43.630 --> 00:06:48.100 align:middle line:84% in a way in which they think they should be performed. 00:06:48.100 --> 00:06:52.150 align:middle line:84% It's the bosses who have these ideas, the supervisors who 00:06:52.150 --> 00:06:55.120 align:middle line:84% have these preconceived ideas, and this revolution 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:57.400 align:middle line:84% that's going on in human resources and the like 00:06:57.400 --> 00:06:59.800 align:middle line:84% is really about trying to tear down 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.650 align:middle line:84% these kinds of false requirements 00:07:02.650 --> 00:07:06.400 align:middle line:84% and really find out what is a job supposed to mean. 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:10.010 align:middle line:84% What are you trying to produce and create? 00:07:10.010 --> 00:07:13.120 align:middle line:84% And hopefully, that will help us a great deal. 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:16.870 align:middle line:84% The Department of Labor estimates that by the time 00:07:16.870 --> 00:07:20.530 align:middle line:84% a person leaves school, college, you 00:07:20.530 --> 00:07:23.650 align:middle line:84% will have between 10 and 14 jobs by the time 00:07:23.650 --> 00:07:26.320 align:middle line:90% you're 38 years of age. 00:07:26.320 --> 00:07:29.230 align:middle line:84% If my dad heard that, he'd be horrified. 00:07:29.230 --> 00:07:33.020 align:middle line:84% My god, he used to say, please, stick with the job. 00:07:33.020 --> 00:07:35.230 align:middle line:84% Stick with it for more than two or three years. 00:07:35.230 --> 00:07:36.880 align:middle line:90% Don't be a job hopper. 00:07:36.880 --> 00:07:39.520 align:middle line:84% He was always really worried that I was jumping around 00:07:39.520 --> 00:07:40.452 align:middle line:90% too much. 00:07:40.452 --> 00:07:42.910 align:middle line:84% I was like, hey, but there's a great opportunity over here, 00:07:42.910 --> 00:07:46.120 align:middle line:84% and I want to do this, and it excites me. 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:50.410 align:middle line:84% This is who are young people are today. 00:07:50.410 --> 00:07:55.240 align:middle line:84% Young adults have a focus, they accomplish something, 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:56.260 align:middle line:90% they move on. 00:07:56.260 --> 00:07:57.970 align:middle line:84% We are currently preparing students 00:07:57.970 --> 00:08:00.250 align:middle line:84% for jobs that don't yet exist, expecting 00:08:00.250 --> 00:08:05.080 align:middle line:84% them to use technologies that have not yet even been invented 00:08:05.080 --> 00:08:07.330 align:middle line:84% in order to solve problems we don't even know 00:08:07.330 --> 00:08:08.395 align:middle line:90% are problems yet. 00:08:08.395 --> 00:08:11.200 align:middle line:90% 00:08:11.200 --> 00:08:13.750 align:middle line:84% How would you like to be teaching in that environment, 00:08:13.750 --> 00:08:15.320 align:middle line:90% right? 00:08:15.320 --> 00:08:17.200 align:middle line:90% Pretty tough. 00:08:17.200 --> 00:08:19.870 align:middle line:90% So what are we teaching? 00:08:19.870 --> 00:08:22.240 align:middle line:84% We're teaching people how to learn 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:24.948 align:middle line:84% and how to continue to adapt throughout our lives. 00:08:24.948 --> 00:08:26.740 align:middle line:84% For the DO-IT scholars, 00:08:26.740 --> 00:08:29.860 align:middle line:84% you know how often we talk about where we're helping you become 00:08:29.860 --> 00:08:31.690 align:middle line:84% successful in college and careers, 00:08:31.690 --> 00:08:33.760 align:middle line:84% but we're not satisfied if you're just 00:08:33.760 --> 00:08:36.010 align:middle line:90% successful in your own right. 00:08:36.010 --> 00:08:37.970 align:middle line:84% We're hoping that you will change the world. 00:08:37.970 --> 00:08:39.490 align:middle line:84% So I think we should pass this baton 00:08:39.490 --> 00:08:41.740 align:middle line:84% of the over to these younger people, don't you think, John? 00:08:41.740 --> 00:08:42.169 align:middle line:90% Please. 00:08:42.169 --> 00:08:43.000 align:middle line:84% To do all the stuff 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:44.420 align:middle line:90% that you just brought up. 00:08:44.420 --> 00:08:45.868 align:middle line:90% Take it, take it. 00:08:45.868 --> 00:08:47.410 align:middle line:84% We can add to it. 00:08:47.410 --> 00:08:48.130 align:middle line:90% Take us higher. 00:08:48.130 --> 00:08:48.630 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:08:48.630 --> 00:08:51.052 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:08:51.052 --> 00:08:56.420 align:middle line:90% 00:08:56.420 --> 00:08:58.460 align:middle line:84% For more information about DO-IT, 00:08:58.460 --> 00:09:04.760 align:middle line:90% consult washington.edu/doit. 00:09:04.760 --> 00:09:06.830 align:middle line:84% This video presentation was created 00:09:06.830 --> 00:09:09.290 align:middle line:84% with funding from the DO-IT Scholars Program, 00:09:09.290 --> 00:09:11.840 align:middle line:84% hosted by Accessible Technology Services 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:14.120 align:middle line:90% at the University of Washington. 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:17.540 align:middle line:84% Copyright 2019 University of Washington. 00:09:17.540 --> 00:09:20.280 align:middle line:90% 00:09:20.280 --> 00:09:22.680 align:middle line:84% Permission is granted to copy these materials 00:09:22.680 --> 00:09:25.350 align:middle line:84% for educational, non-commercial purposes, 00:09:25.350 --> 00:09:26.880 align:middle line:84% provided the source is acknowledged. 00:09:26.880 --> 00:09:29.630 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:09:29.630 --> 00:09:32.843 align:middle line:90%