Disability Rights

Rosemary Musachio – CPACC, Chief Accessibility Officer at Ruh Global Communications,

Interview / Neil Milliken / May 22, 2017 / #a11y, Abilities, Ability Age, Accessibile Entertainment, accessibility, adversity, Americans with Disabilities Act, Austria, B.A. in Communications, Belgium, Bit Of A Challenge, Cerebral Palsy, Cleveland States University Magma Cum Laude, CPACC, disability, disability and inclusion, Disability Rights, Diversity, empowerment, France, Germany, hang gliding in Ridgley, Holland, inclusion, inclusive design, Italian Gazette, Italy, Marketing, Maryland, Ohio, Poetry, Pozzuoli, Pozzuoli Italy, pwd, Spain, Sun Newspapers, Sun Newspapers in Cleveland, The Able Informer, The Plain Dealer

Awaiting Quality Captions When Rosemary was born on September 13, 1966 at an American naval hospital in Pozzuoli, Italy, the doctor asked her parents, “What will you do with her?” Her parents looked at each other and thought he was crazy. The ignorant physician asked because she had brain damage, which resulted in cerebral palsy. […]

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Gregg Beratan – Educational Consultant, Disability Rights Activists

Interview / Neil Milliken / February 29, 2016 / Ability, accessibility, Activist, Activists, Corporations, CripTheVote, disability, Disability Rights, education, inclusion, Inclusive Education, Organizations

Awaiting Quality Captions Gregg Beratan is an Educational consultant and disability rights activist. He has taught in Universities and worked in disability rights organizations in The United States, England, Poland and India. His research has focused primarily on the ways in which our understandings of disability have served to shape and limit inclusive education in

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Angel Giuffria – Actress, Self-proclaimed Cyborg

Interview / Neil Milliken / February 15, 2016 / Ability, actress, adversity, amputee, Angel Giuffria, cosmetic arm, Cosmetic Passive, Cyborg, Disabilities, disability, Disability Rights, diverse actors, diverse actresses, employability, empowerment, Green Lantern, Green Lantern (2011), Hunger Games, inclusion, Martin Campbell, Millenial Amputee, millennial's making change, myoelectric, myoelectric-hand, pwd, Technology, The Accountant Ben Affleck, The Accountant John Lithgow

Captions Available As long as Angel Giuffria can remember, she’s been interested in performing. From youth theater to convincing her parents to enroll her in an expensive acting school that ended up being too far from their home, she always wanted to play pretend. Angel was also born missing her left forearm. This is

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Nurdeniz Tuncer – Law firm of Nurdeniz Tuncer

Interview / Neil Milliken / December 28, 2015 / disability, Disability Community, Disability Rights, Guide Dog Association, Human Rights, inclusion, Istanbul, pwd, Turkey, Visual Impairment

Captions Available Having graduated from Istanbul university law faculty in 2001, Nurdeniz opened her own law office focusing on business and contract law. Now, she is turning her attention to disability rights in Turkey and the Guide Dog Association is part of this effort. As the president of the Association, she is working to advance

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Lainey Feingold – Disability Rights Lawyer

Interview / Neil Milliken / October 19, 2015 / #a11y, accessibility, ADA, Disability Rights, Justice, Section 508

This video is captioned Lainey Feingold is a disability rights lawyer from Berkeley, California who works with the blind community on technology and information access issues. She is nationally recognized for negotiating landmark accessibility agreements and for pioneering the collaborative dispute resolution method known as Structured Negotiation. Using this method, and without filing a single

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Michael Morris Director of National Disability Institute (NDI)

Interview / Neil Milliken / September 22, 2015 / Civil Rights, Disability Rights, Economics, inclusion

Captions available Michael Morris is the Director of National Disability Institute (NDI). He has over 30 years of experience in and outside of government pioneering new strategies to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Michael serves as an advisor and technical expert to multiple federal agencies on policy and systems relationships at federal, state,

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