Visit New Mexico AgrAbility at https://agrability.nmsu.edu/
Or get in contact with their Program Director, Dr. Sonja Koukel at sdkoukel@nmsu.edu
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Natalie Kean is the Director of Federal Health Advocacy at Justice in Aging, a national legal organization dedicated to fighting senior poverty.
She also co-chairs the Disability and Aging Collaborative.
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On this episode of Barrier Free Futures, Bob talks with American poet, musician, community activist, and founder of Krip Hop Nation. They discuss all of Leroy's feats in the music industry and certain stigmas surrounding the disability community.
If you would like to learn more about Leroy and Krip Hop Nation, visit https://kriphopnation.com/
or contact Leroy by sending him an email at blackkrip@gmail.com
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Today's Topic: Stigmas surrounding the disability community.
If you are interested in getting involved or getting in contact with Ariel Simms please visit www.respectability.org
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Today's topic: Disability Rights Are Civil Rights
Bob interviews civìl, disability rights lawyer and author Jim Harrington
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Historian Steven E. Brown (PhD, University of Oklahoma, 1981) is Co-Founder, Institute on Disability Culture and retired Professor of Disability Studies, Center on Disability Studies (CDS), University of Hawaii.
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Bob talks with Colleen Wieck, Executive Director, Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities.
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Lilian Aluri is the REV UP Voting Campaign Coordinator at the American Association of People with Disabilities. As a person with mental illnesses and the sister of a young man with Down syndrome, disability has played a large roll in her life and through her work at AAPD.
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On this episode Bob talks with Jeff Moyer. Renowned musician, social commentator, and movment leader.
Visit https://jeffmoyer.com/ for more info.
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Guest Alan Holdsworth, AKA Johnny Crescendo, poet, composer, performer, disability rights activist joins Bob to discuss inclusive education and his new project with Netflix.
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Guests Jan Nisbet (Founder, Institute on Disability; Associate Professor of Education and Founding Director of the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire) and Nancy Weiss (Director of Disability Initiatives, College of Health Sciences, University of Delaware; Director, National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities at University of Delaware) discuss electroshock therapy and their book Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities.
Dessa Cosma, Executive Director of Detroit Disability Power, discusses the challenges and triumphs of facing persons with disabilities exercising their voting power.
Bob kicks off Disability Pride Month and the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with a conversation about the limitations of guardianship/conservatorship with guests Dr. Ronald Bassman, Executive Director of MindFreedom International, and Misty Dion, CEO of Roads to Freedom for Independent Living.
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Stephen Gold is a nationally renowned disability rights attorney and has spent a third of a century fighting alongside people with mental and physical disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act Legacy Project called him “the foremost attorney in the disability rights movement.
Alisha Vasquez, Southwest Folklife Social Media Administrator, Mexican American Heritage and History Museum Co-Director
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Comedian for 22 years, Disability Activist and worked at Summit Independent Living and the Montana Youth Leadership Forum for 19 years.
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