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ContributorsPat Figueroa, Jr., is an artist, author, advocate and co-founder of Independence Today. He was also the first director of a center for Independent Living (CIL) in New York state. He established the Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, Inc., (CIDNY). He has a masters degree in administration from New York Univeristy (NYU). He resides in New York state. Deborah Kendrick is an award-winning writer, editor, and poet. She works currently as a newspaper columnist and as senior features editor for AccessWorld. Mike Ervin is a member of ADAPT, a group that works for the civil rights of people with disabilities, and a free-lance writer Kathi Wolfe is a Washington D.C. area writer. She writes frequently on disability and other social/cultural issues. Her work has appeared in "The Washngton Post," "The Washington Blade" and other publications. In 1998, Wolfe was awarded a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship. She received a min-fellowship in 1996 from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Press Foundation to report on assisted suicide and people with disabilities. Janine Bertram Kemp is a writer and long time disability rights activist recently working on Real Choice Systems Change and Money Follows the Person. She is a board member of the National Coalition of Disability Rights and the Disability Rights Center. Janine lives on the west slope of Mt. Hood in Oregon. William Loughborough has been associated with San Francisco's Smith-Kettlewell Institute of Visual Science since 1963. He was the youngest member of the class of 1946 at MIT but never re-matriculated after service in World War II. He holds no degrees. His developments at SKIVS included a touch-pad screen reader, a miniature light probe, and the system of Remote Infrared Audible Signage marketed as "Talking Signs" which are installed around the world. He was the keynote speaker at the Disability Summit in Charleston, SC in 2003 and currently resides in Madrid where he is a diversity evangelist. http://www.w4a.info/2010/programme/keynotes.shtml Amy Halloran is a writer who lives in Troy. She is working on a novel about urban renewal, and a comic book about a neighborhood that was destroyed for a bridge. Brenda Brown-Grooms is an independent living coordinator with the Blue Ridge Independent Living Center in Roanoke, Va. Penny Reeder lives in Montgomery Village, MD. In addition to writing occasionally for this and other publications, she works as a rehabilitation specialist for the Office of Blindness and Vision Services in the state of Maryland. She and her guide dog, Tess, travel to students' homes, where she teaches daily living skills, braille, and other ways of coping with blindness to adults ranging in age from 25 to 95. Susan Cohen is a project coordinator at NYSILC and coordinator of New Yorkers with Disabilities Getting Equal Voting Access (NYDGEVA). She can be reached at suec@nysilc.org. Rick Fitzgerald is a contributing writer for Independence Today. He has also worked for The Catholic Sun and the Eagle Newspaper Group in Central New York. Opal Shelton Colvin, in addition to being an advocate for disabled people, also works with domestic abuse victims. Mike Reynolds is a writer, activist, and filmmaker diagnosed with CP at birth. A graduate of UMaine, He lives in Central Maine with his spouse. |
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