What is the Humanities 101 Foundation
To better understand the Humanities 101 Foundation it helps to understand how it came to exist. What started as an attempt to make our classrooms more accessible, turned into the journey to make our human experience more accessible.
Dr. Adam Hazlett (Doc to his students) found that not only did his classrooms lack accessibility for his students, they lacked accessibility for him.
The community college where Doc teaches Humanities 101 tasked him with making a more accessible learning environment for students while simultaneously fighting him on simple and reasonable accommodations he needed for students and himself.
A drive for accessibility is personal for Doc as an educator and a father.
In conjunction with his own autism diagnosis, his young daughter received her autism diagnosis around the same time. To change her future, Doc is determined to change the way things are and has begun an unapologetic journey to make the human experience less ableist.
This has not been an easily achievable task to begin as noted by the pushback that his college gave him and will likely be a lifelong endeavor.
Inaccessibility is everywhere? It’s our places of employment. It’s our grocery stores. It’s our museums. It’s our movie theaters. It’s our parks. It’s our hospitals. It’s our schools. And it’s our homes.
Through an awareness campaign about much needed micro-accommodations in daily life, a core component of Humanities 101 Foundation tools and resources, the next chapter of this endeavor begins.
Humanities 101 Foundation strives to offer human-centered consulting services and impactful research with free tools for inclusivity, universal design, and micro-accommodations to make the world more accessible, one story at a time.
Doc is not alone in this journey as the Humanities 101 Foundation was established by neurodivergent people for neurodivergent people. It is only with the power of community voice of neurodivergent and disabled communities that we can change the future for Doc’s young daughter and we thank you for being a part of this journey.