The School of Nursing's Office of Strategic Engagement and Impact invites you to a Together in UniSON virtual event, where Sabrina Jamal-Eddine, PhD, RN, will incorporate spoken word poetry that centers her lived experience with disability, ableism, and racism to pedagogically guide the audience in developing critical disability consciousness while recognizing and internalizing the impacts ableism has on disabled people.
By the end of this workshop, attendees will build the knowledge base needed to begin their journey of facilitating disability equity while understanding the differences and synergies between disability rights and disability justice, as well as the inextricabilities between ableism and racism, to better show up for, struggle with, and advocate for students in the context of nursing education and practice.
Tuesday, March 31
2 - 3:30 p.m.
Online
This event is open to all faculty, staff, and students at UMB. All registrants will receive a calendar invite with the Zoom link.
Objectives:
- Understand the different frameworks for conceptualizing disability (medical/social/political models of disability), ableism, differences between impairment and the social construction of disability, appropriate disability language, the inextricability of ableism and racism theoretically and in practice toward students, concepts of pity/inspiration/infantilization of disabled people, examples of how ableism manifests in health care, and medicalization of disability.
- Experience anti-ableist and anti-racist spoken word poetry to educate nurses about 1) lived experience related to ableism/mistrust of disabled people with non-apparent disabilities; 2) lived experience with Islamophobia and xenophobia, including experiences in nursing education; and 3) lived experience related to ableism in nursing education.
- Formulate innovative ideas on how to implement commitment to anti-ableism, anti-racism, critical consciousness-raising, and belongingness in nursing education and practice.
- Understand the differences between, and synergies of, disability rights and disability justice.
About Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine, PhD, RN
Jamal-Eddine is a humanities nurse scientist, disability justice scholar-activist, and spoken word poet. She graduated with her PhD in Nursing and Certificate in Disability Ethics from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where her research explored the use of spoken word poetry as critical narrative pedagogy to educate nursing students about disability, ableism, and disability justice. Jamal-Eddine is now finishing her postdoctoral research in the Department of Disability and Human Development at UIC, where her research seeks to dismantle ableism in nursing education and practice and explore anti-colonial pedagogic strategies and community-based interventions rooted in the lived experiences of multiply marginalized disabled people. She is an inaugural 2025-26 Hispanic Serving Research University Postdoctoral Fellow, a 2026 Johns Hopkins Nursing Science Incubator in Social Determinants of Health Fellow, and a 2024 Emerge Disability Justice Fellow through San Francisco State University’s Paul K. Longmore’s Institute on Disability.