SAVE THE DATE
38th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity
Coming Together and Moving Forward
Hoʻokahi ka ʻilau like ʻana.
Wield the paddles together.
Main Conference (In-Person)
Monday, March 6 – Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Hawai‘i Convention Center
Honolulu, HI
Organized by the Center on Disability Studies
In Partnership With
Taking with us lessons from choppy waters and storms, we recognize now more than ever the importance of continuing to move forward, together. This can only be done by coordinating our actions and our energies, keeping in mind our shared destination.
Over the past two years, we have seen challenges none of us could have anticipated. And we have shown ourselves, time and again, we are stronger than we think we are. And now, moving forward, with all we have learned, we also know we are strongest together.
We invite you to share what you have discovered on your own as we come back together in-person, for the first time in three years. Come share your research, your personal stories, your practical strategies, and fellowship and aloha at the 38th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity.
Join us as we celebrate the inclusive places and spaces we build together.
Featured Speakers
Judith Ellen “Judy” Heumann
Disability rights leader
featured in the Oscar-nominated
Crip Camp (2020), appearing virtually.
Dr. Jonathan
Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio
Dean
Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Lance Pickett
Sorenson Chief Relationship Officer
Sorenson Communications
Leslie Wilson
Executive Vice President
Global Workplace Initiatives
Disability:IN
John Tschida, MPP
Executive Director
Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
Opening Oli Aloha Performed By
Misty Kela’i
Pac Rim and the Center on Disability Studies
About the Pac Rim Conference
The Premier International Gathering on Disability – Our 38th Year!
Hosted by the Center on Disability Studies (CDS), College of Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa since 1988, Pac Rim has evolved into an international conference that has welcomed thousands of presenters and attendees from across Hawaiʻi, the nation, and the world.
Learn more about our virtual Pac Rim 2022 conference or view our program archive from 2018-1989.
About the Center on Disability Studies
As one of 67 national University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (UCEDD), the Center on Disability Studies supports a national vision of inclusion. We assist thousands of people with disabilities and their families, as well as Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and other underrepresented populations. We do this through research, training, and demonstration activities, and sharing our work with community members, professionals, students, and policymakers.