Culture Shift: What Community-Based Nonprofits Are Doing During the Strikes

Since launching its summer lab for entertainment professionals with disabilities in 2019, RespectAbility has learned to pivot. The onset of the pandemic meant going fully virtual for the following two years, and by 2022 it seemed like the disability advocacy nonprofit had found its groove, intending to maintain both a virtual as well as an in-person cohort in Los Angeles every summer.

“[This year] our in-person lab began on May 1,” says RespectAbility senior vice…