🌿 Rewired: Where Tech, Equity, and Education Merge
A biweekly newsletter from Collaborative Roots LLCIssue #3 | July 2, 2025
Welcome Techquity Crew,
Thank you to everyone who has subscribed—and an extra shoutout to the incredible folx who’ve shared this newsletter with your networks. We amplify impact when we use our voices together.
This month, we proudly celebrate Disability Pride Month, marking 35 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. This landmark legislation affirmed that access is a civil right—not an afterthought. This month honors the diversity, identity, and culture of disabled people. Disability is a natural, powerful part of human diversity.
At the same time, we’re also grappling with hard news. Just this month, Congress passed a budget bill with the largest cut to Medicaid in history, jeopardizing the lifeline that countless families rely on to care for loved ones with disabilities.
There’s so much happening in our country right now. But what makes America truly great is our freedom to speak up and demand better. As philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò reminds us:
"Our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. Stay locked in."
People may try to silence us—but we will rise.
What's Inside
Just like before, you can expect:
A tech tip resources to create a more inclusive world for our Deaf and Hard of Hearing friends.
A team insight what disability pride month can teach us.
A resource or tools to fight injustice collectively
Rewired exists to help you cultivate sustainable and transformative change. Together, we’re building communities that are more collaborative, more connected, and deeply rooted in collectivism.
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With roots and resilience,Dr. Diana TranaudeFounder, Collaborative Roots LLCTagline: Rooted in collectivism. Powered by tech. Built to last.
🛠 Tech Tip: Accessibility for Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Title: Tech Tools that Amplify Every VoiceContent: Thank you to my lovely friend Cynthia Gomez for suggestion this next issue’s tech tip content specifically focused on providing resources to support our Deaf and Hard of Hearing community!
Consider:
Zoom Live Captions and AI Companion built-in captions for meetings and classes and a summary of your session when AI companion is turned on. This is great to send after your meetings/class to all your attendees.
Google Meet Live Transcription + options for ASL interpreters via grid view
Otter.ai – for real-time, recorded speech-to-text notes, and AI summary of meetings
Canva’s text animations – for creating visually clear messages or lesson materials
Prompt suggestion to go in ChatGPT/Gemini/Other LLM:
“List 3 tools or settings my team of organizers can audit this summer to ensure all meetings and classrooms are accessible for deaf or hard of hearing participants.”
👥 Team Insight
What Disability Pride Month can teach us?
Disability Pride Month isn’t just a celebration of laws—it’s a celebration of culture, identity, and collective power.
Ask your team:
Are we still treating accessibility like a legal compliance issue, or as a core part of our culture?
How are we actively honoring neurodiversity and disability identity—not just “accommodating” it?
Where might our IEP meetings, PD sessions, or even hallway conversations be unintentionally sending the opposite message?
🌱 Real belonging means our systems don’t just “include” disabled people—they’re redesigned by them and for them.
📚 Resource List: Fighting Injustice Collectively
There’s a lot weighing on our communities right now. From potential historic cuts to Medicaid that threaten disability supports, to renewed attacks on immigrant families, to policies that strip away fundamental rights—these moments can feel heavy and personal.
But we’re not powerless. As educators, leaders, and advocates, we have tools to protect, uplift, and stand alongside those most impacted. Below you’ll find a set of resources to help you fight for equity, dignity, and safety—whether that means defending disability rights, ensuring families have access to care, or making your school a place where every student belongs without fear.
Because our collective liberation is built one action, one voice, and one community at a time.
✅ Signal App + Notifica AppSignal for encrypted team & family communications (especially if families fear ICE involvement). Notifica lets undocumented people send emergency alerts.➡️ signal.org | notifica.us
✅ NAACP: Fight The Budget Bill — Save MedicaidContinue to fight the bill that will harm our community’s most vulnerable individuals. NAACP created this list of resources to help with the fight NAACP Budget Fight Toolkit.
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