Webinars and Workshops

In September 2024, Alison Kopit and Madison Zalopany released the Pay Rate for Access Workers Now (PRAWN) report. The report contains data from access workers about the access-related tasks they do, pay rates they earn, and experiences they have had in cultural institutions across the United States. The report makes recommendations both to access workers and institutions about how to engage with access work. They will be taking these findings and expanding on them to engage with both access workers and institutions. Please join them for professional development! Learn more about both the workshop for institutions and the webinar for access workers below. If you’d like to schedule a workshop with PRAWN, please email Alison and Madison at <infoPRAWNs@gmail.com>.

For Institutions

Madison and Alison conduct virtual workshops for cultural institutions to grow in their relationship and familiarity with access work and access workers.

Workshops are up to 3 hours and include information from Madison and Alison, facilitated small group work + conversation, and goal-setting customized to the needs of your space.

Email infoprawns@gmail.com to schedule your customized workshop today!

You can expect to learn: 

  • What access work is, and what you need to know before working with access workers, many of whom are also disabled ourselves

  • How to delineate the scope of work for access work-related projects before you hire

  • How to work best with an access worker, our areas of expertise, and what we need to be successful in the job

This workshop will likely be useful for you if:

  • Your organization is growing its access initiatives or has experienced challenges in the past

  • You’d like to learn about different forms of access work

  • You would like to work with access workers, but don’t know where to start

  • You would like to have a designated space to ask questions, brainstorm together, dialogue about access, and set goals

  • All cultural institutions that have participated in a workshop receive a 20% discount on future consulting services with PRAWN, typically valued at $300/hour.


For Access Workers:

On May 20th at 6PM ET, please join Madison and Alison for a virtual training that shares resources with access workers about how to describe the work they do, negotiate for standards of pay, and advocate for themselves and their work.

You can expect to learn: 

  • How to describe access work

  • How to negotiate standards of pay, and the range of rates that are common for access work

  • Ways to advocate for yourself and your work when the institution may not seem to understand or value access work

  • Common pitfalls of engaging in access work

This webinar will likely be useful for you if:

  • You want to sharpen your contract negotiation skills

  • You’d like to work on describing your own approach to access work

  • How to recognize and navigate red flags

Information:

June 10

6pm - 8pm EDT // 5pm CDT // 4pm-6pm MDT // 3pm PDT

Payscale

$20 per person, or pay what you wish

Access Information

This webinar will be held 100% virtually and include

  • Auto generated zoom captions

  • Verbal description

  • Virtual access support

  • American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation

Please email infoprawns@gmail.com with additional requests at least two weeks in advance