Disability and the Federal Judiciary (with Mamadi Corra)

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Qudsiya is joined by Mamadi Corra, Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University (ECU). They discuss Professor Corra's research on access for people with disabilities in the US federal judicial system, his approach to disability and scholarship and his advice for disabled people of color pursuing an academic path.

Transcript available here.

If you want to learn even more about disability and the legal system, you should check out Season 4, Episode 4, Disabled in Court. Qudsiya interviews Erika Rickard of The Pew Charitable Trusts about their report, “How courts embraced technology, met the pandemic challenge, and Revolutionized their operations.”

About the guest:

Mamadi Corra

Mamadi Corra is Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University (ECU), where he serves as Graduate Program Director (and Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee) for the sociology MA program. Professor Corra is also affiliate faculty with the ECU African and African American Studies (AAAS) Program, an Associate Editor of Immigration and Society, a specialty section of Frontiers in Sociology, and co-guest editor of the 2021 special issue, “The Status of Black Sociologists in the 21st Century,” published in the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy.

His research report, “Disability and the Federal Courts: A Study of Web Accessibility,” researched and written for the Federal judiciary is accessible at the website of the Federal Judicial Center. Dr. Corra is the 2018-19 American Association for the Advancement of Science Judicial Branch Science and Technology Policy (Science and Law) Fellow in residence at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington DC.

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