Name: June Bruce Van Patten

Social Justice Group: Disability Rights: Accessibility in NYC (A)

Date of Fieldwork: December 19, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Donna Ross

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

We interviewed Donna Ross, a wheelchair user on December 19th 2024 at 11:00 am . We asked her numerous questions about her view on Disability rights . We asked her if she thinks NYC is accessible for people in wheelchairs. She felt that for the most part yes but subways , curbs and even not having ramps is a struggle in the day to day . We also asked about her personal experience which she said her worst experience was at the airport or when her wheelchair uber driver didn’t buckle her in allaway . I learned that even a curb on the road can make you not able to access the place you want to go and that wheelchair accessible ubers are more expensive than normal ubers .