UBC Practicum Students

Every year, LET’S welcomes practicum students from UBC who are eager to deepen their learning in disability justice, accessibility, and community-driven change.

This year, we are grateful to be working with 5 students who will be supporting our current research project on why equity-denied people are pushed toward self-employment because of discrimination, harm, inaccessibility, inequity, and toxicity in so-called “traditional” work environments.

Their work will help us better understand how workplaces continue to exclude disabled, neurodivergent, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people, and why many of us turn to self-employment as a way to reduce harm and reclaim some control over our working conditions. The research centres lived expertise and asks what must change so that work can be safer, more accessible, and more just.

Whenever we host practicum students, LET’S provides a free disability awareness workshop to ground them in our approach. This includes current terminology, an understanding of how we utilize an intersectional lens, our disability justice framework, and our ongoing work to decolonize our practices. The goal is to make sure students are not just “placed” with us, but meaningfully prepared to contribute in ways that align with our values, our communities, and our commitment to collective access and interdependence.