WHERE INNOVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE MEET

Let’s cre8te a more equitable, accessible, affirming and inclusive future together.

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Cre8tive Cadence Consulting, LLC is a Black woman, and LGBTQ+ owned, disability-led, multimedia and social impact consultancy. Our organization provides strategic and inclusive storytelling, photography/visual art, coaching and training, social campaigns, and strategic management support using a racial justice and disability justice lens.

Cre8tive Cadence works at the intersection of innovation and social justice to make the world a more equitable, inclusive, affirming and accessible place for people with disabilities, with a focus on Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) with multiply marginalized identities.

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Our Services

  • Cre8tive Cadence offers consulting, coaching and strategy sessions to individuals and organizations interested in implementing racial justice, and disability justices strategies.

  • We believe that innovation rooted in creativity, equity, radical visioning, and social justice are interlaced and important to our collective liberation.

    We provide photography and visual art services as individual standalone services.

    We also use photography and visual art to create content for social campaigns.

  • Everyone has a powerful story to tell.

    Cre8tive Cadence uses a multimodal approach to tell stories highlighting the transformative narratives of individuals, communities, and organizations.

    We use photography, video content and other mediums to: 1) lift up the brilliance of people with disabilities and lived experiences, 2) address important societal and policy issues that contribute to discrimination, inequity and injustice, and 3) share stories that inform and inspire change and promote racial justice, disability justice, access, and inclusion.

  • We are available for virtual speaking engagements in the following areas: disability, ableism, disability and the media, inclusive leadership, disability justice and racial justice.

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  • "Ableism is connected to all our struggles because it undergirds the notions of whose bodies are considered valuable, desirable, and disposable."

    -Mia Mingus

  • “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.”

    -Angela Davis

  • “Disability justice means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed.”

    -Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

  • "Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible."

    -Maya Angelou

  • "To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

    -Rosa Parks

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Why Is This Work So Important?

Anyone can experience a disability at any point in their lives. The disability may be short-term, intermittent, or permanent and impact the quality of people’s lives in different ways.

According to the World Health Organization, approximately 1 billion people around the world or 15% of the world population has disabilities. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 61 million adults live with a disability (26% or 1 in 4 adults), 1 in 3 adults with disabilities did not have adequate healthcare coverage and had unmet healthcare needs due to high costs last year.

In 2019, only 7.9 million adults with disabilities were employed, as reported by the the U.S. Census Bureau. According to MarketResponse International and the National Disability Institute (NDI) “there are strikingly persistent disparities in employment, income production and net worth between people with and without disabilities. Those disparities remain even larger for BIPOC Americans with disabilities (Black, Indigenous, and people of color).” Recent CDC data related to COVID-19 also revealed that more than 7.5% of the adult U.S. population has long COVID, with BIPOC adults among the highest rates (9% - Hispanic adults, 6.8% - African American/Black adults, 3.7% of Asian adults).

People with disabilities are also at increased risk of police brutality and excessive use of force. We make up 26% of the population but represent 30-50% of all individuals harmed by police brutality. Almost 50% of people killed by the police have disabilities. We know that whenever police intervention is involved there is a risk of a person with a disability being harmed. People with multiply marginalized identities including race, LGBTQ+ status, gender, and class who have disabilities are at greatest risk for state sanctioned violence and police brutality.

Disability is not a singular issue. We must work from an anti-racist, anti-ableist, and inclusive space to address intersecting oppressions, inequities, and injustice to co-create a better society that eliminates harm and benefits everyone.