Marshall Martinez, Executive Director of Equality New Mexico, the State LGBTQ Advocacy Organization.
Havens Levitt - LGBT Leader and activist for the LGBT Senior and Elders community in New Mexico.
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Bob interviews Elena hung, Executive Director and Co-founder of Little Lobbyists For a transcript of this program, click here
Richard Petty, ILRU Co-Director
Sandra Breitengross Bitter, ILRU Director of Training
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Hank Hughes, Santa Fe County Commissioner for District 5 and recently retired Executive Director of the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness. He co-founded the Coalition in the year 2000 with other advocates and served as Executive Director from 2001 until 2023.
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Visit https://freeourpeople.net/
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In this episode, Bob is joined by Hoskie Benally Jr., the Community and Government Liaison for the Native American Disability Law Center.
You can learn more at https://nativedisabilitylaw.org/
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In this episode, Bob brings on Thomas Earle, Executive Director of Liberty Resorces Inc. and Liberty Resources Home Choices, Lolita Owens of United Homecare Workers, and Lynn Wiedner, Consumer Directed Worker.
Visit Liberty Resources at https://www.liberty-resources.org/
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Guest Bobby Silverstein, former staff director and chief counsel to the US Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy and chief aide to Senator Tom Harkin, the lead sponsor of the ADA in the Senate. Justin Dart often referred to Bobby as the behind-the-scenes architect of the ADA.
Lisa Sloane, Director of Technical Assistance Collaborative
Please visit www.tacinc.org to get in touch with Lisa or email her at lsloane@tacinc.org
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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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