Anna Zivarts & Cecelia Black

Cecelia Black is a quadriplegic and wheelchair user. She is a transit organizer for Disability Mobility Initiative at Disability Rights Washington. Black is a photographer and founder of Access Test Collective, a multimedia art project focused on sidewalk accessibility. Black has a masters in public policy and is board president of Be:Seattle, a tenants’ rights organization in Seattle. Anna Zivarts is a low-vision mom and nondriver who was born with the neurological condition nystagmus. She directs the Disability Mobility Initiative at DIsability Rights Washington and launched the #WeekWithoutDriving challenge. Zivarts serves on the Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium advisory board and the National Safety Council Mobility Safety Advisory Group. She is publishing a book with Island Press about the expertise of nondrivers.

Joined: 01/03/2024
Articles: 1

Disability, Lobbying, Untruths

A group of a dozen adults, including some people using white canes, manual and power wheelchairs, cross a sidewalk in Seattle Washington. The sky is grey and everyone is bundled up in warm clothes. There are apartment buildings on either side of the street, and trees without leaves.

Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us

Anna Zivarts & Cecelia Black
12/2/23
Rev 01/11/24

Robotaxis won’t get us there, so let’s stop being used to sell a future that doesn’t serve us. This article is from Alice Wong’s DisabilityVisibilityProject.com where you can also find many other articles on disability issues.