Conversations on writing with women of color: Let's talk about Disability Awareness Month

Join Dorena Williamson as she talks with writer, Jennifer Ji-Hye Ko, in honor of Disability Awareness Month

Join Dorena Williamson as she talks with writer, Jennifer Ji-Hye Ko, in honor of Disability Awareness Month.

In this conversation, they discuss:

  • Disability Awareness Month, including Jennifer's personal journey and discovering disability

  • Historical context and the church's response to disability

  • The need for a theology of disability in the church

  • Practical steps for the church to become more inclusive

Jennifer Ji-Hye Ko (JenniferJiHyeKo.com) is a Disabled speaker, writer, poet, author of A Lamenter's Pathway to Joy: Devotional Journal, founder of Disabled Christian Voices Ministry, and a certified theology of disability instructor at Joni and Friends Institute on Disability. She has lived with multiple physical, developmental, and psychiatric disabilities since early childhood including the traumatic confusion of being a late-diagnosed Autistic. Armed with over a decade of theological and biblical counseling education, as well as mind-body self-study, Jennifer continues to learn chronically dwelling on the sacred ground of desperate fellowship with Christ in his suffering. Jennifer — supported by her husband, daughter, BFFs, and her service dog Natasha Romanoff — strives to uplift and embolden hurting people with the comfort she has received from God.

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