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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 2 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Jenn Barrett: Okay. So if we had one starting in May, that would be seven meetings this year. Do we want to vote on it? Jennifer Roloff: I would make a motion to have the meeting in May, unless you want to have discussion before. Jenn Barrett: I second that. Laurie Kozisek: You should also include that you want the meetings to be in odd months. Jennifer Roloff.: So I'll make a motion to change the odd months and start in May. Jenn Barrett: Okay. Can I be the second for that? Okay. All in favor? Jenn Barrett, Susan Deutch, Arnold Brillinger, Jennifer Roloff: Aye. Jenn Barrett: No. At all? Jenny Linton: Not in May. Jenn Barrett: Okay. Jenny Linton: Well we'll have an extra. 4-B Presentation: Karen Nakamura, Chair of Haas Institute's Disability Studies Cluster, UC Berkeley. Jenn Barrett: Yes. So we'll move on to our next item, 4B, which is the presentation by Karen Nakamura, Chair of Haas Institute's Disability Studies Cluster at UC Berkeley. Karen Nakamura: Great. Thank you very much. Do you have your little screen working so you don't have to hurt your necks? [Pause for A/V to be corrected.] Karen Nakamura: Thank you, Commissioners, and especially thank you, Commissioner Brillinger, for inviting me to speak today. So I was just hired by UC Berkeley to head the Disabilities Studies program. I was speaking to Commissioner Barrett earlier that I'd previously been about 20 years in New Haven, Connecticut teaching at Yale. And I'm particularly pleased that the proposed topic was to talk about intersectionality because I think it is increasingly an important topic for anyone who's in the disability space to think about it. So I'm an anthropologist, and it's natural for us to think about what diversity is. And increasingly, we've been thinking of disability as a natural part of human diversity. Disability has always existed across time, disability exists across cultures. 04/11/18 Page 2 of 18 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |