# @penncareylaw on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/COyuPURLKR5
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16553709-penncareylaw-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-05-13T00:11:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (@penncareylaw) — https://gondola.cc/penncareylaw

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Britney Wilson, L’15, is working to ensure that disability is centered among the social justice issues of our time.

Wilson, a Black woman and civil rights attorney with cerebral palsy, came to the Law School knowing that she wanted to practice civil rights law, and especially to advocate on behalf of people of color with disabilities. Wilson has been practicing civil rights law since her graduation — beginning her legal career as a Karpatkin Fellow in the Racial Justice Program in the National office of the ACLU. But despite writing and doing a great deal of personal advocacy on disability issues, incorporating disability into her legal advocacy has been more of a challenge.

“In my experience,” Wilson said, “the civil rights advocacy community and the disability advocacy community have traditionally been pretty separate. Civil rights organizations often have their slate of issues that they work on, all of which affect people with disabilities, but none of which typically include or center us. Similarly, many disability advocacy organizations traditionally focus on their set of issues, which sometimes tend to be less expansive than ‘traditional civil rights issues’ and often don’t include or center the experiences of disabled people of color.” Read more at the link in our profile.

#pennlaw #pennlawlife #pennlawalumni #disabilityrights

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