Happening Now February 2025

Newsletter

• Reimagining Disability Inclusion and Belonging. Start now with February's Newsletter
• What Our Community is saying about President Trump's DEI Executive Order Statements from National Organization on Disability, AAPD, Center for Disability Inclusion, Disability Belongs
• February is Low Vision Awareness Month. Learn more from Lee Huffman, Access World Editor-in-Chief, AFB.

Webinars

• February 5th: K&L Gates Webinar DEI and EEO in the Second Trump Presidency. Register to K&L Gates Webinar.
• February 6th: New EU Directives: Inclusion & Accessibility Essentials with Disability:IN. Register to the New EU Directives Webinar.
• February 19th: Disability:IN Affiliates Featuring Chicago, DC, MN and NC - “Affiliate Innovative Practice- Low Cost- Maximize Employer Outreach”. Attend using this Zoom link.

Disability:IN DC Metro Lunch & Learns

• February 26th: DEI EO Craig Leen. Register to Craig Leen's Lunch & Learn.
• March 18th: The 6th Annual State of Digital Accessibility Report: A Summary by our Chief Accessibility Officer. Register to Eduardo Meza Etienne's Lunch & Learn.

About DC Metro

• Disability:IN DC Metro Board Leading Disability Inclusion in the DC metro area and beyond.
• Check out our New Member Benefits

Are you looking for proven ways to increase your organization's disability inclusion?

The Disability:IN DC Metro is the local best-practice business resource for you!

Vision

Cultivate workforces and workplaces where talent with disabilities are recruited, included, promoted, retained and valued as both internal talent and innovative vendors.

Mission

Building the business network for disability inclusion.

Our focus is on Culture Change!

Disability:IN^®

We are the local affiliate of Disability:IN^®, formerly the USBLN^®.

Affiliates Matter

If your company operates in any of the 25 states that our 30 sister affiliates* are located, you should consider engagement in these local chapters. It’s at the local level that meaningful engagement occurs and enables your local leaders, your ERG Members and your employees to understand and model disability inclusion.

*There are also former affiliates, including VirginiaAbility, that serves the Metro Richmond, VA area and is an organization to join if your company has representation in that geography.

National Representation:

If your company operates nationally, then you should consider joining Disability:IN and attending the Annual National Conference for a national peer to peer dialog.

Branding your company:

As members local and national (if appropriate) is critical and will serve to draw talent with disabilities to your company, engage and retain your current workforce with disabilities and include disability-owned businesses in your supply chain.