Interior of the Good Life Center on Yale campus. Photo by SAS | Yale Daily News

Yale celebrates opening of Good Life Center at Student Accessibility Services

March 29, 2024 3:35 am by Landon Bishop | Yale University

On Wednesday, Yale Student Accessibility Services, or SAS, celebrated the opening of the Good Life Center at SAS, the first space at Yale specifically designated for students with disabilities.

The new space is a collaboration between SAS, the Good Life Center and student activists across Yale’s campus. Over the summer of 2023, SAS began the process of converting a former classroom assigned to the office into a student lounge, but the idea of an initiative for an inclusive space for Yale students with disabilities to socialize and relax has been a longtime aspiration for SAS and the Good Life Center. Read more…

On This Day in Disability History

June 9, 2019. Ali Stroker wins Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. An actor, singer, and wheelchair user, Ali Stroker has been a trailblazer for disability representation on the stage. She was the first wheelchair user to graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department at New York University. In 2015, she was the first wheelchair user to appear on Broadway, starring as Anna in the musical, Spring Awakening. For her performance as Ado Annie Carnes in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!, Stroker became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony Award in 2019.

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