Policy Impact Project Webinar: Understanding the News

Event Start: March 20, 2025 at 11:00 am
Event End: March 13, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Location: Online webinar, via Zoom.
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About the Webinar

Understanding the news: What disability advocates should know about the potential impacts of health and education policy changes to the federal government

The Policy Impact Project is hosting a Policy Power Lunch webinar on March 20, at 11:00 a.m. CST (12:00 p.m. EST). Our advocacy specialist, Joanne Juhnke, will join the panel to talk about potential changes to health and education policy that may affect autistic people and people with neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Attend the webinar to learn about the recent executive orders that have led to suggested and enacted cuts to federal funding for departments, agencies, grants, and programs. The goal of the webinar is to provide facts to help our community understand what they are hearing in the news and what it means for people with neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Webinar Information and Registration

Date and Time: March 20; 11:00 a.m. CST (12:00 p.m. EST)

Register for the webinar here via Zoom. 

View the event page for this webinar on Policy Impact Project.

Panelist Information

Joanne Juhnke

Advocacy Specialist, Disability Rights Wisconsin

Joanne Juhnke has been advocating for Wisconsin students with disabilities on a grassroots level since 2007 and professionally since 2013.  Her work is informed by her experience as the mother of a young adult daughter whose disabilities include autism and who is in her last semester of 18-21 public school education.  As an advocacy specialist on the Children & Youth team at Disability Rights Wisconsin, Joanne assists Wisconsin families to navigate challenges in education and long-term care and also contributes to systems-level policy advocacy.

Ari Ne’eman, PhD

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Ari Ne’eman is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses on the role that public policy can play in facilitating the inclusion of people with disabilities throughout society. His work has been published in Health Affairs, Health Services Research, the New England Journal of Medicine, and other peer-reviewed journals. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Ne’eman served as executive director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and as one of President Obama’s appointees to the National Council on Disability.