Here’s how you can share your expertise and experience through Disabled in Development:

First Steps:

1. See if it’s for you: Check out the process (below), preview the questions.

2. Send questions or confirm with me at ingrid@talesfromthecrip.org: 1) that you’d like to participate; 2) how you’d like to be compensated (info below); 3) your decision about anonymity; 4) that you accept the Agreements.

3. I email you a link to a Google doc that only you and I will have access to, where we’ll complete your interview/story.

Then:

• You complete All About You and All About Your Experience sections.

• The All About You section is factual information about who you are and consists mostly of questions that can be a simple Yes/No/Decline. More detail is welcome but not necessary. Its purpose is to give context to the next section, where you describe experience you’ve had.

• In the All About Your Experience section, you choose 3-5 questions from the list and answer them at the length you want.

• If you want to answer more questions, great, but fewer questions with more detail is preferable.

• I will copy-edit/proof what you write below into a draft blog post that you can then edit and give final approval on.

• I will likely have follow-up questions to clarify a point you made.

• You send me a high-resolution photo of yourself and an image description.

• I will cross-post the series on disabledindevelopment.org starting Labor Day 2019 and on Medium.

• We will both share on social media using #DisabledInDevelopment and #RepresentationMatters.

My Next Steps:

• Migrate all of the DiD Project content to its own dedicated website disabledindevelopment.org in June 2019 or sooner.

• Depending on how many people agree to participate, I will collate the responses and identify patterns, and write up the results as an informal analysis.

• I will publish the informal analysis on my blog and Medium, and/or submit an article to a philanthropic news outlet.

• I will invite you to co-host or participate in a #DisabledInDevelopment Twitter chat.

Contacting Me: ingrid@talesfromthecrip.org