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Hi, my name is Quentin Masten-Davies
I'm 20 years old, and I go to Michigan State University.
Hi, I'm Alec Frazier. I'm 26 years old, and I go to
the state university of New York University of Buffalo.
Hello, my name is Kit Albrecht. I'm 21 years old, and
I go to school at the University of California at San Diego.
I'm Ian Bott, and I'm 29 years old.
And we're talking about the Autism Campus Initiative
right now.
We think that the more leadership there is in the disability
community, the better off we are as disabled people.
[Song Intro]
♪ So this is what you meant ♪
♪ when you said that you were spent ♪
♪ and now it's time to build from the bottom of the pit ♪
♪ right to the top. ♪
♪ Don't hold back. ♪
♪ Packing my bags and giving the academy a rain check. ♪
♪ I don't ever want to let you down. ♪
♪ I don't ever want to leave this town. ♪
♪ 'Cause after all this city never sleeps at night. ♪
♪ It's time to begin, isn't it? ♪
♪ I'll get a little bit bigger but then I'll admit ♪
♪ I'm just the same as I was. ♪
♪ Now don't you understand? ♪
♪ I'm never changing who I am. ♪
So what I want to say to you guys is,
you're potentially going to have more resources and
opportunities to do that work than other student groups are.
A little bit of 101 on having relationships with the media.
So, we're going to do a couple of things today.
We're going to talk about the ways that you might use
new media tools in organizing.
We also think about, you know, does this have to be a
university based chapter? Because there are likely a lot
of people who are not attending your college, who would
love to be a part of this type of group. So thinking
strategically, how do we involve those people?
We're going to talk about theory of change, and how online
organizing fits into an overall campaign strategy.
Don't wing it. What I mean by that is just don't
fly by the seat of your pants, don't make stuff up.
And then we're going to talk about best practices for some
of those specific tools.
The best thing to do is, if you know an interview
is coming up, if you know that you are working on an
issue, if you know you are having a report coming out,
is to prepare.
How many of you have been in a meeting where you
wanted to say something, and you didn't say it?
And what I would recommend is that you take each
of the points of strategy that we talked about earlier,
and decide what order you're going to cover them in
and how much time you're going to spend on it.
But, all of these tools are important. If you want to change
the world, we're going to use all of these tools
to as much effect as we can.
Now, there's a lot of innovations in the disability rights
movement. Start in one part, and then move more broadly
outside of it.
Listening to Jim was great, because a lot of the stuff
that I was hearing about the development of ANI was
very similar to our experience with ADAPT.
This is kind of the steps, right, of building your organization
that for folks that are building a new chapter when you
get home, think about what are the one on ones
that you can do.
If I were in your position,
I would be doing the same exact thing.
So, okay, so we got this. We do the one on ones,
we proposition, and then the third piece of building our
membership is identifying leaders.
Why did you want to come to ACI?
I wanted to come to ACI because I want to build
Autistic community.
It's really my first foray into disability rights.
I wanted to learn leadership, leadership and
community organizing skills.
How are you liking ACI so far?
I'm liking it a lot. I'm learning a lot of information.
ACI so far is just devine, it's wonderful.
I've learned such wonderful things, I've practiced such wonderful
techniques, and tomorrow in Washington is going to be
one of the best days of my life. I can guarantee it.
ACI has definitely been a worthwhile experience for me.
I feel like I've learned a lot.
Very informative lectures.
I've learned more about the organizational structure
of building a group, a community group.
ACI has definitely been worthwhile. It's been
something where it's amazed me how fluid interaction is
for me in many ways here. How effective I'm finding
I'm capable of being, and I don't think that I'd have that
without the experience here.
I'm very interested in workshops.
Facilitate a meeting, and organize protests.
I've learned how to plan an event, I've learned how to
actually follow the whole campaign the entire way through.
I've learned the history of institutionalization.
I've learned public policy, where to go from here.
And I'm sure I've learned many other things but the
most important thing is that I've made some
wonderful friends who I hope to keep for years from now.
Would you like to see ACI continue in future years?
Yes, because I think it has a lot of- a lot going forward
that could benefit other Autistic college students.
I would recommend ACI to others.
ACI has been a really great experience for me.