The center, which grew from Georgetown’s Disability Cultural Initiative, will be located in a newly renovated space on the ground floor of New South, a residential building on Georgetown’s main campus. In addition to meeting and gathering space, the center will feature a sensory room — the first university in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area to do so — that will provide sensory tools and support for students when they are overstimulated. The spaces are anticipated to open in November.
“The Disability Cultural Center provides a home to celebrate disability pride, community and culture and generate awareness about how we can create a culture of access inside and outside of the classroom across campus,” said Amy Kenny, director of the Disability Cultural Center. “It recognizes the wonderful disability community that we have here, and this is only the beginning.”