Disability Pride Month: speakers, programming & vendors for ERGs services for ERGs.
Disability Pride Month is the annual U.S. observance held throughout July that marks the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (signed July 26, 1990) and centers disabled identity, leadership, and accessibility.
Disability Pride Month runs the full month of July, marking the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. For ERG leaders, it's a planning window for accessibility, accommodation, and the cultural shift from compliance to community.
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More than a calendar moment.
Disability Pride Month is not an accessibility audit month. It's the moment in the calendar where ERG leaders can shift the conversation from compliance — what we have to do — to community — what we get to build, with disabled colleagues at the center.
July 26 is the anchor: the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed in 1990 after decades of organizing. The month grew out of the first Disability Pride Day in Boston that same year, and has expanded into a national observance.
For ERG leaders, the work is threefold: celebrate the full breadth of disability (physical, sensory, cognitive, psychiatric, chronic illness — visible and invisible), elevate the accommodations and access work that's still unfinished, and normalize disclosure without ever pressuring it.
What follows is the planning architecture: speakers, vendors, programming ideas, and a 6-week timeline — for ERG leaders building a month rooted in disability justice.
The DPM pitfalls.
What sinks DPM programming isn't usually a missing speaker — it's a misread of the moment. The three misses worth naming out loud.
Centering only visible disability.
Most disability at work is invisible — chronic illness, neurodivergence, mental health, chronic pain. Programming that defaults to wheelchairs and guide dogs erases the majority of the community.
Inspiration porn.
Stories framed as ‘look what they overcame' position disabled people as objects of inspiration for non-disabled audiences. Center disabled voices speaking for themselves, on their own terms.
Inaccessible Disability Pride events.
An event without captions, ASL, sensory considerations, or remote options is a punchline. Build accessibility into the planning phase, not as a checkbox at the end.
Curated for Disability Pride Month.
Speakers, facilitators, and vendors filtered for DPM programming. Pulled live from ERGs.io — every profile is one click away from a full bio, rate, and inquiry form inside the platform.
Brooke Shapiro
Daniela (dani) Herrera
Discover Live
Elaine Carroll
Emily Honor Hubbard
Gretchen DeKnikker
Real DPM programming ideas from ERGs.io.
A few of the most-favorited Disability Pride Month ideas ERG leaders are running this year. Open ERGs.io to browse the full library — filtered, saveable, and bookable with vendors.
Other observances in the calendar.
Every observance gets its own planning page — speakers, vendors, programming ideas, and a timeline.
Stop scrambling. Start planning the month that lands.
ERGs.io pulls every speaker, vendor, and programming format into one workspace — so planning DPM takes one afternoon, not one month of late nights. Free to start.