Tomorrow is the big day! We are so excited for you to join us virtually [[link removed]] for our 2024 Annual Gala. We’re excited to spend an evening celebrating community with you — an evening of panels, awards, reflection and excitement! Check out the program here [[link removed]].

Our event begins at 3:00 PM ET with Sowing Safety: Cultivating Protections and Weeding Out Harmful Policies During the Ongoing Pandemic , a panel discussing the continual erosion of pandemic protections, the harm caused by mask bans, and what we can do to support and keep each other safer.

We’ll continue at 5:15 PM ET with our second panel, Digging Deeper: Autism and Mental Health. This panel will discuss how the current systems are failing people with both IDD and mental health disabilities and what changes we want to see.

Make sure to register for the gala in order to join the panels! [[link removed]] If you’ve already registered, you should have gotten the links for both panels — we’ll see you there!

Finally, we’ll end the evening with one of our favorite events – our Gala Awards Ceremony at 7:30 PM ET. Our community does remarkable work in research, community building, and more, and we want to honor as much of that work as we can. We will also hear remarks by ASAN’s incoming Executive Director Colin Killick! Watch the livestream on Youtube tomorrow! [[link removed]]

Gala tickets are on a sliding scale, so you can pay whatever you are comfortable with. Proceeds from this event every year support our advocacy work and programs for the coming year, and allow us to continue working to empower disabled people across the country. If you are not able to donate, we’re just happy to have you celebrating with us! But if you are able, please consider donating to support our work [[link removed]].

Will we see you tomorrow night? Register for the gala [[link removed]] to be entered into our raffle – prizes include 2 free year-long ASAN memberships at the Trivia Teammates tier [[link removed]] – and keep an eye on your email after the gala to see if you won!

Join tomorrow’s conversation with #ASANGala and share your favorite highlights, your commentary, and your outfits tomorrow, Wednesday, October 30th . Check out our program [[link removed]], and we’ll see you there!


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