Sustainability Speaker Series (United for Disability and Climate Justice) - Oct. 27, 2025

City of Sunnyvale Sustainability Speaker Series · October 28, 2025

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City of Sunnyvale hosted a Sustainability Speaker Series webinar featuring Daphne Frias, a disability-rights and climate-justice advocate. Frias framed ableism as a systemic barrier that compounds with race, gender and other identities, and described concrete changes cities, schools and organizers can make to keep disabled people safe during extreme weather and to include them in climate solutions. She recommended individualized evacuation plans, accessible evacuation captains and buddies, emergency “evacuation baskets,” grocery subsidies in disasters, and vendor liaisons for building repairs; she also urged climate policy-makers to center disabled people in planning.

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