Season 5 Episode 4
Title: How disability friendly is UAlbany?
Summary: In this episode, UAlbany student Sasha Chattergoon tells her
story of resilience and strength relating to her disability. She then delves
into stigmas she has faced on campus and throughout her life for being
disabled. As a student at UAlbany, Sasha highlights the lack of accessibility
she has dealt with on the UAlbany campus. However, the lack of accessibility,
is also seen throughout some professors’ and some students’ attitudes towards
Sasha and others who may have a disability. This episode attempts to dismantle
prejudices and stigmas puts our own privileges and biases into question.
Warning Explicit Language
Time Stamps:
0:00- Introduction
0:37- Sasha’s disability
1:18- Transition from Guyana to the U.S
2:21 - Stigmas Sasha faces
4:07 - Put some respect on Sasha’s name
7:17 - Sasha’s transition from SUNY Schenectady to SUNY UAlbany
8:52- How accessible is UAlbany?
14:50- Housing and classroom accessibility on campus
16:30 – Inaccessibility of professors and classes
20:04 – Navigating accommodations for teachers?
23:40 – How to make UAlbany more accessible
26:39- Excluded by clubs and people
29:16- Sasha just rolls with it
30:42 - Positive and negative highlights at UAlbany
31:57 - Future goals for Sasha
33:07 - Goodbye’s
Contributors:
Sasha Chattergoon (StoryTeller), Ryan Pare (Host, Editor), Bianca Zazzarini-León (Host/Marketing) Carmen Serrano
(Editor/Executive Producer). UAlbany Student Stories, Season 5, Episode 4
[podcast]. Music from El Pañuelo de Pepa by Javier Colina and Pepe Rivero. José Cruz, Executive Producer.
Special thanks
to Ryan C. Clow, Digital Scholarship Center Training Specialist, for allowing us to use the equipment and recording studio.
Email Carmen
Serrano: cserrano4@albany.edu
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