A Road Map: Making Transportation Evacuations Real For People With Disabilities
March 4, 2025
I worked with Justice Shorter from SeedingGround, an agency specifically devoted to content creation that centers people of color with disabilities.
This project involved "Think Tank" sessions where multiple anonymous individuals weighed in on what the situations currently look like for evacuation situations in multiple different kinds of disasters and also then brain stormed ways on how things could be improved.
This document goes way way more in depth than what I am saying and I highly recommend anyone with even the slightest interest takes a moment to check it out.
My part in all of this was supplying a few key illustrations. I was so honored to be involved in this project.
Thank you so much to Justice and everyone involved.
[ID: a digital drawing depicting a kind of board room with 4 people sitting around a table. A paramedic, a bus driver, a fireman, and someone in a polo shirt. On the other side of a wall of glass, unable to interact with them are two disabled people. One in a wheelchair with hearing aids and one with a prosthetic arm looking in on the other side of a glass window, separated from the board meeting.]
[ID: a digital drawing depicting a big red truck driving through heavy flooded dark brown muddy water full of dangerous debris. In the bed of the truck are two disabled people, a masculine presenting person holding crutches and and a feminine presenting person beside him, next to a folded wheelchair.]
[ID: a digital drawing depicting a large stage with two people in front of a crowd. One is in a vibrant pink wheelchair and one is very short and meant to depict a form of dwarfism. Multiple people in the crowd. One has a service dog and there are families with people young and old, showing that people of all ages can be caretakers and disabled
[ID a digital drawing depicting a paratransit van that says PIDS Community Transit on the side. The bus driver is helping a young woman in a power wheelchair wearing a hijab onto the bus. It is very very windy outside like a storm is about to hit, blowing debris all around. There is someone already on the bus looking out at them.]
[ID: a digital drawing taking place in a library. There are two disabled people who look like they’re researching something. One is in a wheelchair pouring over a book. The other is wearing a "community Responder" vest and has a prosthetic leg. They are looking at books on a bookcase.]
