Keith Jones is the President and CEO of SoulTouchin’ Experiences, an organization aimed at bringing a perspective to the issues of access inclusion and empowerment, which affect him as well as others who are persons with a disability. To achieve this multicultural, cross-disability education and outreach efforts he collaborates and conducts trainings with the purpose of strengthening efforts to provide services and information for people with disabilities. The issues he tackles are wide ranging from immigration, criminal justice reform, health care and environmental justice just to name a few. Paralleling with his policy and social justice work Mr. Jones is a multi-talented artist who along with Leroy Moore and Rob Temple founded Krip Hop Nation which is an international collection of artists with disabilities. Krip Hop Nation is currently celebrating 13 years with the recent success of their title song for the Netflix documentary of the Paralympic Games, Rising Phoenix and its critical acclaimed sound track. Keith is an artist in residence teaching hip hop at Wild at Heart in Australia, and Calcutta and currently his art and policy work have combined under the publishing company Soulful Media Works, with the book; For You: Young Black Disabled Men.
Keith Jones has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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Inclusion 360: All Panelists
May 11th, 2021 | 1 hr 38 secs
assistant principals, awsp, education, inclusion, inclusionary practices, ipp, k-12, leadership, principals
On May 10th, 2021 we concluded two years of work around inclusion with an amazing panel of experts. Join AWSP, Alfredo Artiles, Dan Habib, Samuel Habib, LeDerick Horne, Keith Jones and Lauren Katzman for an hour long discussion around the state of inclusion today, and looking at the future.
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Inclusion 360 | Keith Jones
April 15th, 2021 | 45 mins 17 secs
assistant principals, awsp, education, inclusion, inclusionary practices, ipp, k-12, leadership, principals
Keith Jones is the President and CEO of SoulTouchin’ Experiences, an organization aimed at bringing a perspective to the issues of access inclusion and empowerment, which affect him as well as others who are persons with a disability. Enjoy this second episode of our Inclusion 360 podcast series.