Access is not an afterthought to equality. It is what equality is made of. A right that a person cannot actually exercise, because the tools, the training, or the entry point were never built with them in mind, is not fully a right at all. That is the argument at the center of digital literacy work, even though it rarely gets framed that way. For Oklahomans with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the ability to safely navigate a phone, a video call, or a news feed is not a...

Last year, 66,259 individuals were impacted through The Arc's advocacy and public policy work.

Five seats on our Board of Directors are opening this year, and I want to tell you honestly what that means, because "join our board" gets said a lot in the nonprofit world without much explanation of what it involves. We serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families in all 77 Oklahoma counties, from birth through the end of life. That is a big footprint for a board of 24 people, and it works best when the people making decisions come from as many different...