Invisible Not Broken: Navigating Disabilities in the Workplace
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In this episode of Room at the Table, Betsy Cerulo talks with Lynn Lafy, the HR Consulting Team Lead at AdNet, and Sydney Blondell, Administrative Coordinator at AdNet and an indie author in a disabled community. They share their experiences as women with invisible disabilities, in and out of the workplace, and discuss the importance of education and compassion as forms of support.
About the guests:
Sydney Blondell is a queer and disabled author, best known for her book The Stars in My Heart – an OwnVoices disability representation YA trilogy. She holds two bachelor's degrees in English and Professional Writing from Bridgewater College. Sydney is also the Administrative Coordinator at AdNet.
Lynn Lafy has spent her career specializing in Human Resources in industries such as oil, roofing, and now staffing. Lynn previously worked with AdNet in the late 1990’s in an operations role and now serves as AdNet’s HR Consulting Team Lead. Lynn has dealt with chronic illnesses for most of her life, and it is a passion of hers to ensure the disabled community is being fairly treated in the workplace.
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