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The Kelsey Civic Center Groundbreaking Video

People with and without disabilities wearing construction hard hats and vests visiting a construction site at The Kelsey Ayer Station in San Jose.

Creating Home for More at The Kelsey

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2023 Year End Video

“It’s hard to give value to people with disabilities if you don’t have proximity and see them as real people who have the same kinds of lived experiences that you do. So, the more separation that we have, the less we’re really getting to the problem.”

Abby Yim, Integrated Community Services

Disability-Forward Housing

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Urban Institute & The Kelsey Publish New Research

Text on a blue background reads "Off-Kilter Podcast: How The Kelsey Is Putting Disabled People at the Center of Housing Policy." Allie Cannington, Manager of Advocacy and Organizing, Micaela Connery, Co-Founder and CEO, and Fatimah Aure, Director of Field Building and Capacity, are pictured in separate circles. Allie is a light skinned person with long curly hair wearing glasses. They are wearing a black shirt, black pants and a pea-colored blazer. Micaela is a light-skinned person with long dark hair. She is wearing a yellow shirt. Fatimah Aure, a dark-skinned woman with dark hair, is pictured wearing a shirt with a decorative neckline,

Off-Kilter Podcast

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Investing in an Inclusive Future with the Ford Foundation

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Kiley McCleary

Pronouns: She/Her Kiley is originally from New Mexico but has lived in Arizona, and The Netherlands. She has a background in counseling psychology, and is passionate about advocating for mental health resources and equity in marginalized communities. She currently lives in San Francisco with her partner and her two cats. In her free time she …

Element of the Month: Nate Harding | October 2024

The Inclusive Design Standards equip designers, builders, and developers with guidelines and frameworks for disability-forward housing creation. It highlights cross-disability accessibility and design decisions that are anchored in inclusion. Each month we feature one of our partners and the Element they're most excited about.

Kate Sullivan, a white person with long blonde hair sitting at a table with wine glasses, is pictured above Micaela Connery, a white woman with long dark brown hair wearing a white collared shirt and smiling in front of a black background. The text to the right of their headshots reads, “To Dine For the podcast. Featuring: Micaela Connery, Founder and CEO, The Kelsey. Available on Apple, Acast, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. A Shotput Media Production.

Micaela Connery on the To Dine For podcast

Kate Sullivan  0:00   My name is Kate Sullivan, and I am the host of To Dine For. I’m a journalist of foodie, a traveler with an appetite for the stories of people who are hungry for more, dreamers, visionaries, artists, those who hustle hard in the direction they love. I travel with them to their …

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How Graduate Programs of Architecture Can Be More Accessible to Students with Disabilities

In 1974, Mary Ann Hiserman applied to the School of Architecture at The University of California Berkeley. Although there were few female architects at that time, this wasn’t the only thing that made Mary Ann unique. Due to Rheumatoid Arthritis, Mary Ann was an electric wheelchair user.  Adaptations such as lowering workstations were made to allow Mary Ann to more easily draw.  Even fifty years later, there are many barriers that make it difficult for people with disabilities to pursue careers as architects. This article will examine those barriers as well as possible solutions to them.

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