Inside Inclusion: A diary of working toward inclusion

One of the highlights of visiting New York for me was the chance to spend time with the brilliant Priya Lalvani in real life (or IRL, as the kids say!).

I really respect and admire Priya’s work in disability studies and inclusive education. We have read each other’s work and connected online at many different points in time – including when Priya wrote a wonderful chapter for the second edition of Inclusive Education in the Early Years: Right from the Start. However, with Priya working at Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA), while I work at Charles Sturt University (Bathurst, Australia), we’ve never quite managed to be in the same place at the same time in this vast globe.

Sharing ideas and plenty of laughs together was wonderful! Thanks Priya.

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A selfie of Priya and Kathy with the lights of a restaurant in Koreatown NYC behind us. We are both smiling at the camera.