The Game Plan: A Disability Rights California Podcast

As a grassroots production, we greatly value your support. Please subscribe, comment, rate, review, and share The Game Plan. This time on The Game Plan, Eric interviews Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson, a powerful advocate for people with disabilities to live independently and the Lead California Homecare Organizer at Hand in Hand. The two talk about the power of telling your story, which is the focus o...

As a grassroots production, we greatly value your support. Please subscribe, comment, rate, review, and share The Game Plan. In honor of May Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re proud to present Eric’s conversation with Jason Robison, the Director of Advocacy at SHARE!, the Self-Help and Recovery Exchange. SHARE is a very special and impactful peer-run organization in Los Angeles County. Together,...

As a grassroots production, we greatly value your support. Please subscribe, comment, rate, review, and share The Game Plan. It’s a special election episode on The Game Plan! This time, Eric is joined by Michelle Bishop, the manager for voter access and engagement at the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN). The two talk about what California gets right about accessible voting, and how to pre...

As a grassroots production, we greatly value your support. Please subscribe, comment, rate, review, and share The Game Plan. This time on The Game Plan, Eric is joined by two incredible disability leaders. First, Eric speaks to intrepid self-advocate Lisa Cooley, who discussed her long and rich career advocating on a variety of disability issues and reflects on the role that family plays in her jo...

As a grassroots production, we greatly value your support. Please subscribe, comment, rate, review, and share The Game Plan. Eric Harris is joined by his old friend Shay Arigbede, filmmaker and former competitive sled hockey player, to talk two big recent cultural events -- the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games and the 98th Annual Academy Awards. The two reminisce about their time as teenagers trying t...

As a grassroots production, we greatly value your support. Please subscribe, comment, rate, review, and share The Game Plan. This time on The Game Plan, Eric interviews an old friend-- Emily Ladau, national disability rights activist, speaker, and author of the incredible Demystifying Disability , the practical guide that has rapidly grown to an essential tome of our movement. Emily reflects on he...

The Game Plan is a space to strategize, organize, and posterize for the future of the disability rights movement – subscribe, rate, review, and join us! Welcome back to the Game Plan! In this episode, Eric is joined by community advocate, Sacramento City Councilmember, and Congressional Candidate Mai Vang. Mai describes her experience growing up as a first-generation daughter of refugees and one o...

The Game Plan is a space to strategize, organize, and posterize for the future of the disability rights movement – subscribe, rate, review, and join us! On this episode of the Game Plan, Eric is in conversation with two esteemed experts in the Black mental health space, Kelechi Ubozoh and Yolo Akili Robinson. Together, the three break down generational differences in perspectives on mental health,...

The Game Plan is a space to strategize, organize, and posterize for the future of the disability rights movement – subscribe, rate, review, and join us! This time on The Game Plan, Eric is joined by Dolores Canales (director of community outreach for The Bail Project,) a national leader and incredible activist in the fight to end solitary confinement. Dolores and Eric talk about their lives, activ...

The Game Plan is a space to strategize, organize, and posterize for the future of the disability rights movement – subscribe, rate, review, and join us! This episode of The Game Plan is historic—our first episode with two guests! We couldn’t think of two better people to join Eric than Conrad Crump and Tremmel Watson, whose friendship and connection to each other, and their work, are infectious. T...

In the latest installment of The Game Plan, host Eric Harris is joined by Roque Bucton, an incredible advocate, organizer and artist who has led in blind, low vision, mental health and cross-disability spaces for decades. The two friends discuss Roque’s childhood growing up in the Filipino community and rough climes of Los Angeles in the 70s, what it’s like living at the intersection of multiple d...

In the latest installment of The Game Plan, host Eric Harris is joined by Vance Taylor, a leader in both the disability and emergency preparedness space. Vance and Eric commiserate about the unexpected joys of being a parent with a disability, muse on what constitutes being an inspiration, and reflect on how natural disasters cut across party lines. Vance discusses how his work has brought him all...

This time on The Game Plan , Eric Harris has a conversation with DRC’s capo di tutti capi, Andy Imparato, a fierce national disability rights advocate for over 25 years. The two brothers in arms discuss California’s storied history as the cradle of the disability rights movement, express hope about the current landscape and future of disabled representation in politics, and define the need for dis...

Content Warning: Discussion of Sexual Violence and Sexual Assault. Timestamp of potentially triggering content: [00:14:00 - 00:15:06] On this inaugural episode of The Game Plan, Eric Harris is joined by Vanessa Ramos, all around kid dynamite and special advisor to DRC’s Investigations Unit. They dive into their mutual origin story opposing the CARE Act, the landmark mental health bill that set off...