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Disability Lab and MadRadLab

Thank you for supporting the UC Berkeley Disability Lab and MadRadLab within the Department of Anthropology.

Your gifts will go towards supporting students in the undergraduate MadRadLab work on team projects related to disability, art, technology, and access; helping graduate students who are doing their thesis or dissertation work on critical disability theory, fieldwork, or history in the social sciences; and increasing our outreach into the broader Bay Area to help bridge the many gaps between academia, art, activism, and new technologies coming out of Silicon Valley. Disability has always been a strong driver of technology and change and we want Disabled people to be in the driver’s seat.

Past lab projects have included: inexpensive and easily home-built positive air pressure respirator (for COVID or wildfire toxic air exposure); Blind Arduino Tutorials (a set of curricula for blind learners to use a very popular programming environment); Fiat Lux (an environmental sensing package for people who are light/lighting sensitive); Tactile Sex Education (3d models and other objects to teach sex education to blind and visually impaired students); AI Ed (project to educate minoritized communities about how AI affects their lives) and more.

About the lab: The Disability Lab was formed in 2018 as a nexus for disability research, media, and design in the Bay Area and combines the functions of a purposefully-accessible and cross-disability-centered makerspace, research lab, and teaching space.

Photo Description: Lab Director Prof. Karen Nakamura and Associate Director Nate Tilton stand in front of the UC Berkeley Disability Lab at the Hearst Field Annex with two journalists from the PBS NewsHour. Nakamura and Tilton’s service dogs are in the foreground.

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If the College of Letters & Science recruits 1,500 donors to any of its funds, a generous donor on the L&S Advisory Board will give another $10,000 to the L&S Leadership Fund.

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A generous donor has challenged the College of Letters & Science to beat its 2023 Big Give total and secure 2,400 donors in order to unlock another $10,000 (for a total of $50,000) for the L&S Leadership Fund!

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A generous donor will give another $10,000 to the L&S Leadership Fund when 1,000 donors make gifts to any College of Letters & Science fund.

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L&S Advisory Board Challenge #4: 2,000 Donors

A generous donor will contribute another $10,000 to the L&S Leadership Fund as soon as 2,000 donors give to any fund at the College of Letters & Science.

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