Learning without Limits: Making Education Accessible for Every Student

This panel focuses on the importance of educational equity, particularly the behind-the-scenes mechanisms that make education more accessible to individual learners.

Across our summer experiences, we explored how organizations develop and adapt teaching methods, resources, and learning environments to meet the needs of the specific populations they serve. Equitable education does not always mean providing every student with the same resources or methods. Instead, creating meaningful access often requires adapting educational tools to the needs of different learners. Although we all worked with different communities and in different educational settings, our experiences raised a shared question that we will explore during the panel: How can we work within institutions to create learning environments where materials and teaching practices are adapted to the learner rather than relying on a standardized approach?

Moderator: Maria Cartagena

Presenters:

Delfina Incani '27
Neuroscience and Behavior majorLily Kenny '27
Sociology major, Educational Policy, Research, and Leadership 5C CertificateJada Curd '27
Economics Major, Politics Minor, Data Analytics and Society NexusGemma Akin-Lusk '28
Geology major, Classical Studies major, and Museums, Archives, and Public History Nexus