{"id":10176,"date":"2026-01-04T17:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/panl\/?p=10176"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:33:18","slug":"should-people-disclose-their-disability-susan-hardie-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/panl\/2026\/should-people-disclose-their-disability-susan-hardie-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Should People Disclose Their Disability? Dr. Susan L. Hardie Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Susan L. Hardie.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Susan L. Hardie, PhD<\/a>, is the Executive Director of Winnipeg-based Eviance<\/a>, which has worked for more than three decades in the cross-disability and mental health fields. She has been instrumental in establishing Eviance as a national organization that models an intersectional, human rights\u2013based and reflexive approach, champions meaningful engagement, and facilitates collaborations with persons with disabilities, disability communities and allies across diverse locations. This Q&A with Dr. Hardie is part of the PANL Perspectives<\/em> \u201cMaking Canada Accessible\u201d series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Question: How does Eviance increase accessibility?<\/h2>\n

Susan Lynn Hardie<\/strong>: Our Vision at Eviance<\/a> is to realize an inclusive, equitable and accessible society that\u2019s sustainable for all \u2013 with accessibility being one of three high-level themes. We unpack accessibility discourses and make visible the historic and current roots of cross-disability movements \u2013 the roots of social exclusion and social, economic and political inequities and injustices, as well as collective systemic actions. Our Mission is to serve as a facilitator of knowledge-to-action, bringing people and knowledge together on cross-disability issues to affect behavioural and system-level change.<\/p>\n

Our high-level themes that will increase inclusion, equity and accessibility (IEA) in all realms of society are: (1) community-based projects; (2) co-creating with diverse disability networks; and (3) knowledge-to-action activities. Permeating the themes is an intersectional<\/a>, human rights and reflexive<\/a> (IHRR) approach in everything we do. We\u2019re an Organization of Persons with Disabilities, an organization of 80% staff and volunteers being persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n