People Living With Disabilities

Individuals with disabilities are marginalized by physical, social, and economic barriers. Many face restricted access to resources, employment, and healthcare, often compounded by stigma. Veterans with disabilities face unique additional barriers due to their service history.

A Note on Scope and Intention

This is not an exhaustive list of every marginalized group. Rather, it highlights those groups that experience widespread, consistent marginalization across multiple regions and societies. These groups often face compounded barriers and exclusion, creating deep and lasting impacts on access to resources, recognition, and rights. The goal of this page is to help DEI, UBFARE, and JEDI professionals make space to address these systemic exclusions and work toward removing these barriers in meaningful ways.

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Example Groups

People living with visual impairment, autism, hearing impairment, chronic illnesses, ADHD, down-syndrome, language disorders, orthopedic impairment, developmental delays, PTSD

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A Resource for Change

DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) efforts often aim to address these disparities, but many fail to reach those most severely impacted. This page is a resource for UBFARE, DEI, and JEDI professionals—a starting point to help identify and address the barriers and exclusions that deeply affect globally marginalized groups. These intersecting systems of political, economic, and social marginalization create complex hierarchies of oppression, bias, and hate. This page doesn’t have all the answers, but as Shannon Bartlett, Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer of the National Geographic Society, says, ‘There are rarely DEI answers—what there are are a lot of questions that can help us make better-informed and more inclusive decisions.’

Here is a beginning. A resource for those committed to transformative change.”

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Explore the UBFARE framework for justice, belonging, and equity. This free toolkit outlines the core principles of Ubuntu, Belonging, Feminism, Antiracism, Representation, and Equity, offering actionable steps to foster systemic transformation.