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Guest: Joe Caldwell, Director of the Community Living Policy Center at Brandeis University.

Guest: Anil Lewis, Director of Advocacy and Policy for the National Federation of the Blind discusses the history and current priorities of the NFB, grassroots networking, and developing new leadership.

Guest: Rev. Cindy Jones, founder of the Center for Accessible Society.

Guest: Val Vera, disability rights activist, speaker, organizer and writer. He has intersectional experience as disabled Latinx, author of Crip Lyrics: the Unapologetic Poetry of Disability.

Guest: Fred Pelka, author of What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement, along with several other books on disability history. He currently teaches a course on Disability Advocacy and Its History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Guest: Rhoda Gibson, ADAPT National Activist, Lead Co-Chair: Accessible, Affordable, Integrated Housing Workgroup.

Guest: James Odato, journalist, adjunct professor of journalism at the University at Albany, and author of the biography of advocacy journalist and disability rights activist Lucy Gwin, This Brain Had a Mouth: Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation.

Guest: Joe Stramondo, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Director, Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs (IEPA) San Diego State University discusses difficult issues facing the disability community such as involuntary DNRs, health care advocacy, how to stay positive in the movement, and more.

Guest: Dr. Amanda Kraus, President of the Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD) on issues confronting disability focused campus offices throughout the country.

Guest: Alisha Vasquez, Southwest Folklife Social Media Administrator, Mexican American Heritage and History Museum Co-Director.