Why hire an accessibility consultant?
Event Organizing
You want to ensure the most people possible can access your event, increasing attendance, growing your audience, and creating inclusive conditions for participation.
Addressing Emergent Issues
You have experienced complaints from disabled patrons or students noting that your organization or event is inaccessible.
Teaching
You want information on how to make your syllabus, classroom, or institutional training more accessible.
Learning
You want a long-term frameshift that will serve you in the future. I hope that working together can create lasting organizational shifts. I teach a way of moving through the world that can inform your future practices, events, shows, and teaching.
Delegating
Creating access is difficult and time consuming! Every person who organizes an event or show can learn the skills and tools that I provide; however, it’s a lot to keep track of! It can be helpful, just as you would hire a lighting designer or a producer, to have someone who is responsible for holding the lens of accessibility and inquiring how it fits at every step.
Providing Personal Expertise
Advise based on personal experience on mobility limitations, chronic illness, and physical access.
Drawing from Community
Build on connections with other disability community members with personal experience with chemical sensitivity, D/deafness and hearing impairment, blindness and visual impairment, developmental disabilities, neurodivergence, madness, and other experiences and identities.
Valuing Access as a Creative Process
As a multiply disabled writer and dancer with a doctorate in Performance Studies, I know that our differences are core to our creativity. FRACTURE is built off of the value that by critically reflecting on our practices with care, we can build more deeply creatively, challenging, transformative spaces that can reach wider audiences and create a bigger impact.
