by Belo Cipriani | Aug 5, 2020 | Disability Advocates, Disability News, The Disability Tribune
By David-Elijah Nahmod Kyle Hahn is 32 and works at the Walgreens distribution center in Windsor, Connecticut. Nothing unusual about that, except that Hahn lives with a disability — he has attention deficit disorder (ADD). Many companies might not take a chance on...
by Belo Cipriani | Jun 10, 2020 | Disability Advocates, Guest Post
By Dr. Tony Greco Dr. Tony Greco is a disability rights advocate for mental health and addiction support and the founder of GET HELP. In 1977, my parents met in an AA meeting. My mom was still a teenager and my dad had a couple of years sober in the program. She was a...
by Belo Cipriani | Mar 26, 2020 | Disability Advocates, Disability Awareness, Guest Post
By Stephanie Duesing In January of 2017, my family and I discovered that our 15-year-old son Sebastian — a straight-A honor student, a painter, a sculptor, a potter and a water polo-player — was almost completely blind. We were going through old photos and realized...
by Belo Cipriani | Jan 8, 2020 | Disability Advocates
by David-Elijah Nahmod Nothing in Karina Ulrike Sturm’s childhood prepared her for what was to come. The German native, who now lives in San Francisco with her husband, had a happy if uneventful childhood. It wasn’t until she was 24 that Sturm began to...
by Belo Cipriani | Dec 27, 2019 | Disability Advocates
By Christina Pires A few years ago, Subhashish “Subs” Acharya attended a job fair in Boston, MA to film a documentary. Amongst a sea of tables and stations, he noticed a vendor who had over 150 people with disabilities crowding its post — all hoping to apply for...
