Webinars

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 institution and access worker webinar below. If you have questions about which webinar is right for you, or if these trainings will support your own process, please email Alison and Madison at <infoPRAWNs@gmail.com>.

For Institutions

On May 15th at 2PM ET, please join Madison and Alison for a virtual training that trains cultural institutions on how to grow in their relationship with access work and access workers.

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 webinar 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

  • All participants receive a 20% discount on future consulting services with PRAWN, typically valued at $300/hour.

Information:

Thursday, May 15, 2025
2:00-3:30 EDT // 1:00-2:30 CDT // 12:00-1:30 MDT // 11:00-12:30 PDT

Payscale

Institution’s Operating Budget
0-100K $75 per person

100-500k $100 per person

500k + $150 per person

Access Information

This webinar will be held 100% virtually and include

  • Auto generated zoom captions

  • Verbal description

  • Virtual Access doula

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


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:

Tuesday, May 20, 2025
6:00-7:30PM EDT // 5:00-6:30PM CDT // 4:00-5:30 MDT // 3:00-4:30 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 Doula

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