Adventures in Accessibility

Transcript:  rmad.ac/AIAe066 Nicole Cyrille is an actor, voice-over artist, and disability advocate focused on fostering inclusion and authentic representation in entertainment. With a diverse background on stage and screen, Nicole brings powerful performances to life across genres. As a voice-over artist, she lends her voice to characters and narrations with versatility and emotional depth. She a...

Transcript:  rmad.ac/AIAe065 Rebecca Rosenberg is an engineer, entrepreneur, speaker, and a person with albinism. Growing up she struggled to find assistive technologies that supported her needs as a person with moderate vision impairment. In 2019, Rebecca founded ReBokeh to develop assistive technologies specifically for the albinism and moderate low vision communities. After receiving her bachel...

Transcript:  rmad.ac/AIAe064 Katherine Beattie is a Los Angeles born television writer/producer and action sports enthusiast. While she has spent most of her professional career writing police procedurals, she considers herself a comedian at heart. But regardless of what she’s writing, Katherine is a champion for authentic and nuanced portrayals of Disabled People and other historically excluded c...

Transcript:  rmad.ac/AIAe063 Kelly Twichel is an occupational therapist and CEO of the award-winning accessibility startup Access Trax. At 12 years old, Kelly made the commitment to pursue a career in healthcare; her mom had suffered a massive stroke and she wanted to help others like those who helped her mom. Her journey to entrepreneurship began in 2016 at grad school. As an occupational therapy...

Transcript:  rmad.ac/AIAe062 Foster's journey took a dramatic turn at 17 during the summer between his junior and senior years of high school. An active and athletic young man, he was riding his motorcycle through the woods of upstate New York when a severe accident left him in a two-week coma. He recalls a near-death out-of-body experience when his heart stopped for six seconds. Despite his quadr...

Transcript:  bit.ly/AIAe061 Dr. Kerry Magro , Ed. D. was nonspeaking till 2.5, diagnosed with autism at 4 and didn’t speak in complete sentences until 7 years old. Today as an adult he is an award-winning autistic professional speaker, best-selling author and autism consultant to the HBO series Mrs. Fletcher and the latest season of Netflix’s Emmy-Award Winning Series ‘Love on the Spectrum U.S.’ H...

Transcript:  bit.ly/AIAe060 Haley is an attorney, author, artist, and advocate who was diagnosed with autism at age three. She's passionate about disability inclusion and neurodiversity, using her unique blend of personal and professional experiences to promote accessibility for people with disabilities. Haley is a keynote speaker and educator, finding fulfillment and sharing her story to make a d...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe059 Andrew Leland is the author of The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and others. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Quarterly, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among other outlets. From 2013 to 2019, he hosted and produce...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe058 Erik Weihenmayer is one of the most celebrated and accomplished athletes in the world. In 2001, he became the only blind person in history to climb Mount Everest. When he stood on top of Carstensz pyramid in 2008, he completed his quest to climb all of the seven summits, the tallest peak on each of the seven continents.  Erik is the author of the bestselling memoir, Touc...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe057 Sommer is a 29 year old mental health advocate in the Denver area and the owner of Discreet Journal. She was diagnosed with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and speaks out about her challenges and opportunities with mental health. Connect with Sommer: Discreet Journal - Therapy Workbook, Mindfulness Journal Discreet Journal | Facebook Discreet Journal (@discree...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe056 After being diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of two, Cory Lee’s thirst for adventure never ceased. He has traveled across all seven continents in his powered wheelchair while managing to run his travel blog CurbFreeWithCoryLee.com, where he shares his accessible — and sometimes not so accessible — travel adventures with others. Cory also does annual grou...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe055 Tom Wheaton grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis. He decided to enlist in the U.S. Navy for many reasons, the most notable being that his grandfathers and dad served during World War II and the Vietnam War, respectively. Wheaton began serving in the U.S. Navy in 1986 and is a plank owner (original crew member) of the USS Fort McHenry. In 1988, while on active duty in Pe...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe054-1 VOLORES’ debut album, AGES, explores universal themes of life, love, and death through dark indie rock, stylish post-punk motifs, and disarmingly frank lyricism. The Colorado-based couple – Flogging Molly bassist Nathen Maxwell and his singer-songwriter wife Shelby – lightheartedly dub their singular sound “mountain goth.” Organic, haunting, and relentlessly authentic,...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe053-01 Today’s guest is our very own Chris Murphy. Chris grew up having a disability but not understanding that it was a disability. He wasn’t allowed to participate in sports as a child, but was able to pursue music, taking up the trombone at age 12. Chris majored in trombone performance at California State University Fullerton and earned a Bachelors of Music in 2002. He li...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe052 Today’s guest is Charles Webb, founder of the Stoke for Life Foundation. The main goal of the Stoke for Life Foundation is to bring awareness to the rehabilitative benefits of adaptive water sports through clinics and education. Charles Webb is a T 7-8 incomplete paraplegic, Charles is the first paraplegic to compete in an open water paddle race (2013 Battle of the Paddl...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe051 Hoskie Benally Jr., is a Member of the Navajo Nation and is Legally Blind. He is currently employed with the Native American Disability Law Center as the Community and Government Liaison engaged in Disability Systems Advocacy with the Navajo Nation and other Native American Tribes. Benally is also involved with the National Congress of American Indians, Disability Sub-Co...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe050 As the only hearing child born to Deaf parents (a CODA), Mark Jones was signing before he was speaking. In his 25th year working and now leading the Accessibility & Services for Guests with Disabilities team at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Mark uses his passion, skills, and background to create and support memorable experiences for Guests with disabilitie...

Transcript: bit.ly/AIAe049 Julie (O’Neill) Dussliere currently serves as the Chief of Paralympics & Internally Managed Sports for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee. In this position, Dussliere oversees the high-performance planning, strategy, support processes and sport development projects for all 28 Paralympic sports. In addition, she leads Paralympic international relations effort...

Transcript: https://bit.ly/AIAe048 JOHNNY AGAR , 29 years old from Rockford, MI, gained international attention when he walked a mile in his church’s annual 5k. That sounds like an odd reason for fame, except for the reality of Johnny’s severe cerebral palsy. Even with a lifetime of physical therapy, before the 5k the longest distance he’d ever been able to walk was twenty-three steps! Since that...

Transcript: https://bit.ly/AIAe047 Dr. Lionel Wolberger , is the Chief Compliance and Operating Officer of UserWay , the market leader in web accessibility technology. With a prominent role in The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), he passionately advocates for the disability community. He contributes to W3C's Accessible Platforms Architectures Working Group, developing current and future digital ac...

Transcript: bit.ly/3M6wtSy Ali Thompson is a national speaker presenting continuing education training on numerous specialized investigation techniques and First Responder Interactions with People with Disabilities. Thompson served over 25 years in the field of Law Enforcement as a dispatcher, patrol officer, and a detective, focusing on crimes against at-risk individuals. In 2013, Thompson became...

Transcript: bit.ly/41WQelG Judge Anita Schutte was appointed to the Denver District Court in June of 2022 and currently presides over a domestic relations docket. Prior to her appointment, she represented the Colorado Department of Human Services at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, served as a municipal court judge, as a public defender, and represented children with disabilities. Judge Sch...

Transcript: bit.ly/3zzC0uT Nate Simon is a 20-year-old young entrepreneur, and Holly is his mom. Nate is a gold medalist for the Special Olympics, a model, and has a role in an up-and-coming movie. With hundreds of thousands of followers, Nate, or @MakeNateTheGreat, is known as the King of TikTok. Nate is also the CEO of a clothing company called 21 Pineapples. Through 21 Pineapples, Nate and Holl...

Transcript: http://bit.ly/3ZM5qkS Christy Kinsey (maiden name Wise) was born in Reno, Nevada and grew up with a twin sister and younger brother, spending all their time skiing and playing sports. For college, Christy attended the United States Air Force Academy where she ski raced and played club softball. In 2009, she commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force and in 2011, she rece...

Transcript: bit.ly/3J6QMxx This episode was recorded on February 15, 2023. Less than three weeks later, on March 4, 2023, we received with great sadness the news that Judy Heumann passed away. As you will hear in this episode, Judy was fiercely and continually devoted to strengthening the disability rights movement and calling in others to do the same. She fought the good fight for disabled people...