The Black Disabled Experience: A Conversation for Change
About this Event
Join us to discuss disability, race and representation in Higher Education. What are the challenges and how can we make progress? Discover some of the research and support available at King’s and encounter opportunities for breaking barriers and building belonging.
This event is open to all King's staff and students interested in these topics or looking to increase their understanding.
You will hear form speakers on their research and experiences of the Black Disabled experience. Beyond the talks, you'll have the opportunity to interact with colleagues and companies working in this space and engage in discussion about affecting change.
Whether you’re looking to support your peers or delve deeper into policy issues , this is your chance to plug into the conversation at King’s.
For those unable to attend in person, you can join the conversation online via MS Teams - just book an online ticket!
Agenda
10:30 - Registration and Discovery stalls open
11:00 - Opening remarks from Maribel Fernandez
11:10 Panel discussion with Kym Oliver, Emediong Jumbo and Lassina Dembele, chaired by Jhanelle White
12:00 - Q&A
12:15 - Discussion and Discovery time
12:30 - Event close
Speaker bios
Kym Oliver
Amongst other things, Kym can be described as a Thinker, Public Speaker, Published Writer, PhD Researcher, Lecturer, Multifaceted Creative, Producer, Consultant, Mentor and Professional Cackler with an international, diverse list of credits including Google, UNFPA, British Library, AJ+, Edward Elgar, University of Oxford and NASA.
Passionate about understanding the cultural harmonies and dissonances within marginalised communities as a pathway towards collective freedom, Kym is the Co-Founder of The Triple Cripples - a platform dedicated to Disabled Women, and Gender Expansive people; and of Our Living Archives - a registered, charitable intracommunal healing organisation & archival project.
As a Black Feminist Fund board member and staunch believer in community-led interventions, Kym believes that funding grassroots Black feminist movements and Black Disabled feminist researchers can help pave the way toward truly loving futures.
Emediong Jumbo
Emediong Jumbo is a PhD candidate at the Global Health and Social Medicine department at KCL. She has a BSc in Global Health and MSc in Global Health and Social Justice. She is currently undertaking a doctoral project on “Our state of being is constantly being questioned “- The lived experiences of Black people with non-visible disabilities in the UK: Anti-Black racism, ableism and embodied belonging”. This project employs methods such as co-production, semi-structured interviews, Black Feminist autoethnography and focus groups with participant-driven photo elicitation.
She has been a member of Anti-racism steering groups across higher education institutions since 2020. She is a member of Culture Access’s steering group, a pan-disability, intersectional CIC that supports disabled access to culture.
Lassina Dembele
Lassina Dembélé is a Lecturer in Computational Number Theory in the Department of Mathematics, King's College London. Lassina Dembélé received his PhD from McGill University, Canada. He held various research positions at Brandeis University, University of Calgary, Institute for Experimental Mathematics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Dartmouth College and University of Luxembourg. He also spent time at the University of Warwick as a Marie-Curie Fellow and an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow. He joined King’s College London in January 2022.
Jhanelle White
Dr Jhanelle White is a Senior Laboratory Instructor in the Department of Chemistry at King’s College London. They completed their PhD in physical chemistry at King’s, where their research used scanning probe microscopy and electrochemical techniques to investigate electron transfer and transport mechanisms in biomolecules, particularly ferritin, an iron-storage protein.
In their current role, Jhanelle primarily teaches within the chemistry undergraduate teaching labs. They also serve as Department Outreach Lead, coordinating outreach and widening participation initiatives that aim to engage young people from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in chemistry.
As a black and neurodivergent chemist, Jhanelle is particularly interested in promoting conversations about identity, accessibility and inclusion, and creating spaces where diverse experiences can be acknowledged and represented.
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