A reflective essay on the difference between access and inclusion, grounded in work with LGBTQI youth and HIV services. Discusses silencing of frontline practitioners, the role of lived experience vs. academia, and antiracism in coaching practice.
Inclusion isn't access. This piece explores what it means to truly center lived experience in our work—drawing from Arthur Padilla's 1997 work in Southern Arizona and ongoing conversations about who gets to speak, who gets heard, and what we do with the knowledge frontline practitioners carry. References Anthony Abraham Jack's TEDx talk and explores the tension between academic frameworks and community wisdom.
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