Full Speed AHEAD Podcast

Full Speed AHEAD: The quickest route from  research to practice is a new, monthly podcast from AHEAD that brings research to life through conversation, showcasing evidence-based practices to advance disability equity in postsecondary education and on your campus. New episodes are released mid-month.

Podcast Episodes

Episode 4: “Disabled, Racially Minoritized, and Invisible”: The Intersectionality of Race and Disability in Higher Education: A Conversation with Co-editors
(41 mins)

Resources

With Daniel Blake, Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Dept. of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University; Julia Karpicz, Associate Director of Student Accessibility Services at Worcester State University; Kat Stephens-Peace, Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Dept. of Educational Leadership at Ball State University; and Gabriel Rodriguez Lemus, a doctoral candidate in Higher Education Leadership at the University of Texas Austin.
 
Featured: Disabled, Racially Minoritized, and Invisible: The Intersectionality of Race and Disability in Higher Education (2025). Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability 38(2).

Episode 3: Disability Services in Higher Education: An Insider’s Conversation (26m38s)

Resources

With Kirsten Behling, Associate Dean of Student Accessibility and Academic Resources at Tufts University, and Andrew Cioffi, Director of Disability Resources at Suffolk University.

Featured: Behling, K., Bellemore, E., Bibeau, L., Cioffi, A., and McNamee, B.  (2023). Disability Services in Higher Education: An Insider’s Guide. Temple University Press. 356 pp.

Episode 2: The New Accessibility: Disrupting the System for an Inclusive Future (29m10s)

Resources

With guests Katherine Aquino and Adam Lalor, Editors of The New Accessibility in Higher Education: Disrupting the System for An Inclusive Future. Oxford University Press, 2025. 464 pp.

Episode 1: Allyship and Building Alliances (19m42s)

Resources

With Dr. Joan Ostrove, Director of the Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching and professor of Psychology at Macalester College

Featured: Ostrove, J. Kornfeld, M. and Ibrahim, M. (2019). Actors against Ableism? Qualities of Nondisabled Allies from the Perspective of People with Physical Disabilities. Journal of Social Psychology, 75(3). 924-42. 

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