Collective for
Racial & Disability Justice
at UCLA School of Law
Collective.
From Center to
CRDJ's name is changing! Our commitment to rigorous research, legal and policy analysis, and racial and disability justice is not.
CRDJ is becoming the Collective for Racial & Disability Justice. Our new name better reflects how we work: bringing research, community knowledge, lived experience, and people together to build resources, relationships, and pathways for change.
Promoting justice for people of color, people with disabilities, and individuals at the intersection of race and disability.
The Collective for Racial and Disability Justice (CRDJ) is a first-of-its kind center founded in Fall 2022 by Professor Jamelia Morgan. As a Disabled Person's Organization (DPO), the Collective is dedicated to advancing a more equitable society by promoting the rights and voices of marginalized people, with a particular focus on the intersections of race and disability.
CRDJ's work is rooted in scholarly research, critical theory, and interdisciplinary collaboration. We are committed to advancing racial and disability justice through academic inquiry and public advocacy, engaging in discourse and actions aligned with our mission to explore and challenge systemic injustices.
Newest Release
From Conversion to Compliance: ABA, Conversion Therapy, and the Harm of Normalization
This report by Dr. Kate Caldwell traces the historical connections between ABA and LGBTQ+ conversion therapy while advancing a disability justice framework for affirming care, autonomy, and policies that reject coercive normalization.
The Latest from CRDJ
Report
From Conversion to Compliance: ABA, Conversion Therapy, and the Harm of Normalization
Kate Caldwell
This report traces the historical connections between ABA and LGBTQ+ conversion therapy while advancing a disability justice framework for affirming care, autonomy, and policies that reject coercive normalization.
Brief
Political Disablement: The Modernization of Exclusion in American Society
Kate Caldwell
This brief examines how law, maps, paperwork, databases, access barriers, and constitutional doctrine are modernizing political disablement and weakening the collective political power of racialized disabled communities.
Dispatches
For the {Public} Record
CRDJ submits public comments to agencies, institutions, and decision-makers to bring racial and disability justice perspectives into policy, law, and public decision-making.
Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions
September 30, 2026
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