Sophie Mitra, Qin Gao, Z. George Hong, Melissa D. Begg, Vandana Chaudhry, Douglas Kruse, Anne Revillard, Yang Lixiong, Willetta Waisath, Janna Heymann, Xiaoran Wang, Dimity Peter, Itaf Elkhateeb, Alex Cote, Shaffa Hameed, Mario Spiezio, Karen R Fisher, Sandra Gendera, Maria Martinho, Brooke Ellison, Michelle Ballan, Zhu Wenxuan, Wei Chen, Justine Hervé, Jaclyn Yap, Amy Horowitz, Jing Li, Hoolda Kim, Meira L. Orentlicher, Marian Frattarola-Saulino, Kathleen Perry, Izel Obermeyer, Daniel Mont, Yalu Zhang, Stephen McGarity, Morgon Banks , Christine Fountain, Vidya Diwakar, Jean-Francois Trani,, Janna Heyman, Susan Matloff-Nieves,, G. Lawrence Farmer, Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio, Michael Stein, Matthew S. Rutledge, Michael Palmer, Xuehui Li, Jody Heymann

In the symposium, interdisciplinary conversations among people with diverse experiences and backgrounds will provide opportunities to discover solutions to old and new problems related to disability. Participants come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds including the social sciences, the humanities, and interdisciplinary fields such as disability studies. The symposium will focus on social policies and their impacts on persons with disabilities, their families, and communities.
The symposium will provide a forum for scholars, activists, policymakers, practitioners, and students to share their work and discuss how disability is considered in the design, implementation, and evaluation of social policies in different societies.