News

March 4, 2021
DEFY Leader’s comment on Gov. Lamont’s change in vaccine roll-out policy: Joaquín Lara Midkiff ’24, vice president of the student advocacy organization Disability...
February 25, 2021
“On vaccine roll-out, it’s not so simple” published in the New Haven Register by DEFY Vice President Joaquín Lara Midkiff in response to  Gov. Lamont’s changes to...
February 25, 2021
Steuer Ingall’s “Connecticut’s Vaccine Rollout is Discriminatory” appeared in the Yale Herald this week and breaksdown why, against the assessmnet of others like...
February 5, 2021
Emily Tian, of the Yale Daily News, writes on achievement of winning a Disability Peer Liaison (PL) program. The first PL program in twelve years, this new SAS-run, first-...
November 6, 2020
“Six months after classes first transitioned online, students and faculty members can now opt to use live closed captioning in their Zoom sessions. Since March, student...
October 12, 2020
Words originally in the Yale Daily News: Yale as an institution is entering a moment of consequence. The omnipresent health crisis that has derailed business as usual is...
September 18, 2020
Truong reports: “Online instruction can often make course material — from lectures to readings — inaccessible to certain students for a variety of reasons, such as the need...

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March 30, 2022
“In three short years, registrations for Yale’s Student Accessibility Services have nearly doubled. Yet this number is likely two to three times lower than the actual number...
March 10, 2022
Breaking news on the lifting of the campus-wide mask mandate. Joaquín comments: “Joaquín Lara Midkiff ’24, former president of Disability Empowerment for Yale, told the News...
February 22, 2022
The YDN reports on DEFY’s efforts to make hybrid learning accommodations availabe for students with disabilities in light of the dynamic COVID-19 landscape on campus: “...