One Last Post

Hi Everyone!

After 6 amazing weeks in Mysore and 2 weeks of intense traveling in North India, I have made it home to D.C. Leaving India was hard; after two months I feel I barely even scratched the surface of all there is to learn in such a huge country. Still, it feels good to be home for a bit before heading back to school, and I’m certainly taking advantage of some down time.

During my last week in Mysore, I worked to finish my report and then gave a final presentation to the other Cornell students, my mentor, so of the graduate students at V-LEAD, and other SVYM staff. During my presentation I focused on the work I’d been doing, specifically highlighting what I had learned from the two companies I interviewed with.

I learned a lot from the two companies, specifically about the important roles of technology in providing accommodations for people with disabilities. I also got to see the importance of support from the leadership team in developing inclusive environment, which definitely helped me better understand why some companies are more successful than others in implementing equal opportunity policies.

I hope that my work at GRAAM will be meaningful as they take the interview framework I created and use it to analyze other companies. I learned an incredible amount from working at the organization, and I am extremely grateful that SVYM, GRAAM, and EDI provided me with the opportunity to participate.

From here, I hope to take my understanding of some of the key issues in employment for people with disabilities in corporate settings and apply that in different settings. I don’t know where that will take me, but I look forward to figuring out!

Have a great last few weeks of summer!

Abigail