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CDJR activities and events support our mission through community building, advocacy, scholarship, and inclusive teaching.

Join us for the 2nd Annual Disability Justice Week, February 17-21, 2026!

DJ Week 2026 is dedicated to disability justice ancestors  and

All times are Pacific Standard Time (PST) and are free and open to the community! In person events on are on Hayward Campus. Visit this link for directions and parking information. If you need accommodations for any events, please contact Accessibility Services at (510) 885-3868 or as@csueastbay.edu. Interpreters have already been requested for some events and can be requested for other events as needed.

Tuesday, February 17

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Project Rebound and Disability Panel
Join a student-led panel exploring the intersection of disability and the criminal justice system. Topics include the school-to-prison pipeline, policing, incarceration, reentry, and education through Project Rebound.
Location: In person, PE 140 Dance Studio

4:00 – 6:00 PM
Film Screening & Discussion:
A screening of the documentary Intelligent Lives, followed by a discussion connecting the film to disability justice work and DJ spaces.
Location: Online; link will be posted soon!
Access: Film is captioned

6:00 – 9:00 PM
Open Rehearsal with the Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble
Spend time with the Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble and learn how inclusive performance creation works. Guests are welcome to watch, participate, or both. No prior experience required.
Location: In person, PE 140 Dance Studio

Wednesday, February 18

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Disability Justice in the Health Professions Panel
Students and alumni working in health professions discuss disability justice, disability solidarity, and how these frameworks can improve care, engagement, and outcomes.
Location: Online.
Access: ASL interpreters provided

6:30 – 7:30 PM
Immigration, Family Preparedness, and Disability in Contested Spaces
A presentation by Ayesha Elaine Lewis, Senior Staff Attorney and leadership team member at Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF), addressing disability within immigration and family preparedness contexts.
Location: Online.
Access: Zoom captions available; CART and/or ASL provided upon request

Thursday, February 19

12:30 – 1:30 PM
Inclusive Taiko Workshop
An inclusive Taiko workshop led by Naoko Amemiya, focusing on accessible and community-based approaches to Taiko practice and performance.
Location: In person, PE 140 Dance Studio

Friday, February 20

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Inclusive Dance West Coast Regional Gathering — Day 1 ()
The first West Coast Regional Inclusive Dance Gathering brings together artists, educators, advocates, students, and community members to explore the future of Inclusive Dance Education. Participation is free and open for drop-in attendance, with RSVP encouraged by February 12 to help with planning.
The gathering emphasizes collaboration, accessibility, and creative research, culminating in a co-created performance-lecture titled Momentum: Emerging Futures of Inclusive Dance Education.
Location: In person, PE 140 Dance Studio

Saturday, February 21

10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Inclusive Dance West Coast Regional Gathering — Day 2 ()
The gathering continues with workshops, discussions, and collaborative performance development focused on inclusive dance movements locally and globally.
Location: In person, PE 140 Dance Studio
Access: ASL interpreters available from 10:00 AM–3:00 PM, with additional times upon request

Past Events

In March 2025, we hosted CSUEB's first-ever Disability Justice Week from March 17-20! Check out the events we hosted below. 

Monday, March 17 – , author of , from 2:00-3:30 pm in person in the South Student Union Multipurpose Room. Refreshments served. Thank you to all of the departments co-sponsoring this event: AGES (Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Studies), Criminal Justice, Ethnic Studies, Human Development, Kinesiology, Public Health, and Social Work

Tuesday, March 18 - - hybrid, all day, Core Building. Thank you to the Disability Justice Working Group for leading this event! 

Wednesday, March 19 – , 5:00-6:30 pm in zoom. 

Thursday, March 20 – & Happy Hour, 3:00-5:00 pm, Core Building Entrepreneurship Hub, 1st floor, room 179. Refreshments served! No RSVP needed.

Access a PDF version of the flyer above

Selected past events (scroll down for more information)

• CDJR Book Club/Collaborative Workshops in Spring 2023 and Spring 2024
• Celebration of the Anniversary of the ADA - July 27, 2023
• Accessibility and Inclusion Ideathon - February 25-March 18
• Tabling at Lovefest and the Centers and Institutes Celebration - February 17, 2023
• Disability Justice Proposal Brainstorming Session - December 5, 2022
• Universal Design for Learning Drop In Peer Support Office Hours - Fall 2022
• CDJR Kick Off Gathering - October 21, 2022

   

CDJR, with support fromthe CSUEB Office of Faculty Development, offered two Book Club/Collaborative Workshops in Spring 2023 and Spring 2024.

Though most faculty understand that students with disabilities may receive accommodations, relatively few have had exposure to the principles of disability justice, an intersectional framework that goes far beyond accommodations. Disability justice calls on us to move towards collective liberation and envision “…a world in which every body and mind is known as beautiful.” 

Books were provided to faculty by the Office of Faculty Development. Upon completion of the 4-week session participants received a $400 honorarium.  Sarah Taylor (Social Work) and Sara McDaniel (Special Education) co-facilitated these workshops.

Spring 2024: Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (Alice Wong, 2022)

This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into a local activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice. The novel is 400 pages, composed of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more. This workshop will assign readings for each collaborative meeting, and discussion will focus on applying Alice Wong’s teachings to our own instruction and activism. 

SPRING 2023: Care work (Leah Laskshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, 2018)

In their new collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and disability justice activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

This year, as part of the Women in Leadership Forum, CDJR and the Smith Center collaborated on a joint initiative to bring awareness about the need for accessible, inclusive design and thinking in the workplace. Together, we ran an Accessibility and Inclusion Ideathon. Our first presenters, Executive Director Dr. Marina Vaserman and Transition Services Coordinator Mark Romoser from  lead an orientation on Feb 26th. Interdisciplinary teams then designed scalable solutions that organizations can implement to address barriers, increase access and promote inclusion for all in workplace settings. Learn more on the Women in Leadership page

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CDJR team members shared information about our new center at two campus events on Friday, February 17. The first event was the Principal Investigators’ Celebration, with a showcase of Centers and Institutes, hosted by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. The second was Lovefest, a celebration of love in all its infinite forms, hosted by the Theatre and Dance Department and Residence Hall Association. At both events, our mini heart fidget poppers with the CDJR logo were a hit! We enjoyed getting to connect with so many members of the CSUEB community!

Image description: Collage photo with five images of the tabling events. From top left: 1. CDJR Governing Board Member Dr. Christina Chin-Newman and CDJR Co-Director Dr. Shubha Kashinath, standing and smiling near the information table; 2. CDJR table at Lovefest showing flyers and mini heart fidget poppers; 3. Inviting performance space at Lovefest with purple lights; 4. MSW Student Dorris Cheng, CDJR Co-Director Dr. Sarah Taylor, and CDJR Governing Board Member Professor Scott Hopkins at the table at Lovefest; 5. A pile of colorful mini heart fidget poppers with CDJR logo tags.

CDJR hosted a celebratory launch party on October 21, 2022. The event included performances by and the CSUEB Wandering Ensemble as well as speeches by the Center Co-Directors, CSUEB President Cathy Sandeen, Hayward City Council member and Mayor Pro Tem Sara Lamnin, community members, and CSUEB faculty, students, and alums. The event was part of the CSUEB Inclusive Performance Fest and coincided with Forever Pioneer Week. 

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to or participated in this event, including Eric Kupers, Professor and Chair of Theatre and Dance; Haley Hayashi, Graduate Student Assistant; Travis Nelson, Director of Alumni Engagement; Bonnie Baskin, Master of Ceremonies; Axis Dance Company; The CSUEB Wandering Ensemble; and Center Co-Directors Shubha Kashinath and Sarah Taylor.

Image of the Wandering Ensemble performing at the Launch Party. Image shows eight dancers dressed in gold and white, some with arms raised above and others with arms outstretched. The dancers are diverse in many ways, including disability, age, gender, race, ethnicity, and more.

Image of Axis Dance Company performing at the Launch Party. Image shows five dancers dressed in black sme with their elbows out and hands on chest and others with the arms raised and bent at the elbows. The dancers are diverse in many ways, including disability, age, gender, race, ethnicity, and more.