Forum Member Check-in: Disability & Inclusion Pledge Insights 4/29/24
Join your United Philanthropy Forum peers to learn more about the Disability & Philanthropy Forum and the Disability Inclusion Pledge. PEAK Grantmaking will share their progress as a pledge signatory and how the Disability & Philanthropy Forum can support you on your organizational goals. This is a great opportunity to come with questions if you are interested in becoming a pledge signatory or are a current pledge member. We look forward to hearing your insights from your own organization's disability and inclusion journey.
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Caitlin McDanels
Senior Marketing and Experience Manager
PEAK Grantmaking
Caitlin McDanels
Senior Marketing and Experience Manager
PEAK Grantmaking
Sarah Napoli
Director of Learning Services
Disability & Philanthropy Forum
Sarah Napoli
She/Her
Director of Learning Services
Disability & Philanthropy Forum
Sarah Napoli is the learning services director at the Disability and Philanthropy Forum. From 2019-2023, she acted as the lead disability inclusion project officer within the people and culture Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity team at Open Society Foundations (OSF), where she developed and facilitated disability inclusion learning and embedded proactive disability inclusive practices throughout the global network. In addition to OSF, she has over 20 years of experience teaching and conducting training on social justice and advocacy in higher education and nonprofits, most recently as the director for the inaugural Center for Inclusion at Manhattanville College and as the assistant head of Goodricke College at the University of York, England. She specializes in facilitating engaging workshops and designing curriculum that challenge and encourage participants to foster a culture of inclusion.
She holds two MA degrees, one in social justice in intercultural relations from the SIT graduate institute and one in applied human rights from the University of York.. She identifies as a proud disabled person and enjoys chatting about Geek culture-all things fantasy and sci/fi and her former life as a hip hop researcher and dancer. Her research on how hip hop creates human rights identities was recently published in the University of Michigan press text, For the Culture: Hip Hop and the Fight for Social Justice.
She has conducted workshops and training all over the USA and in the world, including Japan, Guatemala, throughout Europe, South Africa, and Canada.