ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A podcast where UC Berkeley students, educators, and staff from the disability community tell their stories and call the campus community in on acts of advocacy and disability justice.
Share your feedback: findingspace@berkeley.edu
Share your feedback: findingspace@berkeley.edu
Update frequency:
every 47 days
Average audio length:
28 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
12 episodes
since Feb. 24, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Beyond the Frame is an accessible film event that brings together disability perspectives and films that amplify disability stories. Held on October 29, 2025, at Banatao Auditorium, the event showcased six powerful short films: Signs and Gestures,, Before the Tunnel, I Loved to See You, How Do You …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Recovery is rarely a straight path, and belonging can make all the difference. In this episode of Finding Space: Where Students with Disabilities Thrive, Iz Engel, a former UC Berkeley student and current staff member, shares their journey through recovery, identity, and healing. Together, we explo…
In this episode of Finding Space, we’re reminded that meeting the updated ADA Title II digital accessibility requirements is not something instructors have to do alone.
Maggie Sokolik, Director of College Writing Programs, shares a practical, collaborative approach: offer a hands-on workshop for yo…
In this episode, we focus on what the updated Title II of the ADA means for higher education—and, more importantly, how faculty can get started without feeling overwhelmed.
We’re joined by Anne Marie Richard, Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Chief Academic Technology Officer, …
In this episode, core Disability Studies instructor Emily Nusbaum shares how she builds collective access into her courses—from day one. Instead of treating accommodations as individual, private transactions, Emily invites her students to co-design access practices together: shared note-taking, fle…
In this episode, alum, Ryan Manriquez, shares how a terrifying emergency-evacuation failure in graduate housing became a catalyst for change—prompting system-wide guidance, individualized evacuation planning, and a renewed focus on not leaving anyone behind. Ryan also highlights the role of the Dis…
In this episode, Marisella Rodriguez (Associate Director of Equity & Inclusion, Center for Teaching and Learning), Carmen Varela (Executive Director, Disabled Students’ Program), and UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons (Office of the Chancellor) discuss how leadership, collective care, and …
In this episode, Marisella Rodriguez (Associate Director of Equity & Inclusion, Center for Teaching and Learning), Carmen Varela (Executive Director, Disabled Students’ Program), and UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons (Office of the Chancellor) discuss how leadership, collective care, and disabi…
What if every student had a real chance to succeed—without lowering academic standards?
In this episode of Finding Space, Professor Dan Garcia from UC Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department explores his dream for Berkeley: a university where all students can bring their …
Marlenne Perez shares her experience navigating UC Berkeley as a first generation, low income, independent undergraduate student with a disability. She shares how relationships with mentors, professors and student support staff enabled her to stay at Berkeley when she thought she might drop out, an…
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