Join us for a talk by Dara Baldwin, author of To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement, in conversation with Sunu P. Chandy.
Dara Baldwin is an activist, a scholar, and an author with over 20 years of experience in policy and social justice work. She currently runs her own equity consulting firm, DMadrina, LLC. She formerly held the position of Director of National Policy for the Center for Disability Rights, Inc. (CDR). Baldwin has led multiple national and international advocacy campaigns as an expert in disability laws and policy. She works on Housing and Transportation equity, Criminal Justice, and many other issue areas.
Sunu P. Chandy (she/her) is a social justice activist as a poet and a civil rights attorney. She is the daughter of immigrants from Kerala, India, and lives in Washington, DC with her family. Sunu’s award-winning collection of poems, My Dear Comrades, was published by Regal House. Sunu’s work can be found in anthologies including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets and The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Sunu is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward, and serves on the board of the Transgender Law Center. Sunu has been named as one of the Washington Blade’s Queer Women of Washington.
