Alliance for an Inclusive Middlebury (AIM)

In light of Martin Luther King Jr.’s commitment to nonviolence, Holistic Life Foundation founders Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andy Gonzalez discuss how their work teaching contemplative practice in underserved schools in the Baltimore area is reducing disciplinary problems among students. “The Holistic Life Foundation is doing some of the most positively transformative work happening in our country’s inner cities.

Dr. Margaret Price (The Ohio State University) draws upon 10 years of research to consider ways that disability and mental health is included—and not included—in higher-education settings including classrooms, meeting spaces, and extracurricular activities. Price argues that “including” students (as well as employees) with disabilities and mental health histories in higher education will mean more than simply offering extra supports.

Sustainable architecture in the 21st century tends to work without explicit attention to disability. In this public lecture, Johnna S. Keller, RA discusses ways that architecture can consciously consider both sustainability and accessibility as creative design challenges, thus promoting a socially just and ecologically restorative environment.

Co-sponsored by Middlebury’s Advisory Group on Disability Access and Inclusion, Architecture Studies/History of Art & Architecture, Franklin Environmental Center, and the Program in Environmental Studies.