Entrepreneur rises to the challenge
The year is 1984. Spring break at Daytona Beach. Kevin Sullivan, a 24-year-old student at the University of North Dakota, […]
Author Archives: Amy Farrar
Repetitive Stress Injuries: One Worker’s Story, Pt. 2
In the last issue of Access Press, I talked about the RSI I got while working, and how I was […]
Repetitive Stress Injuries: One Worker’s Story
Several years ago, I wrote a story for Access Press entitled, “Repetitive Motion Disorders: The Unseen Disability.” It detailed the […]
Top Disability Legislator Will Not Run Again
Next year, the disability community will be losing one of its strongest advocates when State Representative Kevin Goodno retires. Goodno, […]
Mike Chevrette: Access For All
Judd Jacobson was an extremely successful entrepreneur and business leader, and a quadriplegic as a result of a diving accident. […]
Repetitive Motion Disorders: the unseen disability – Part 1 of 2: Treatment, compensation “an uphill battle”
The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary defines “disabled” as “incapacitated by illness, injury or wounds.” Many of us, when we think of […]
Organizing in Poland: The Fuga Mundi Foundation
Last month Access Press talked about the state of disability rights in Poland. In this month’s Part 2 we look […]
Advocates in Poland wage war against issues of integration, accessibility
Fifty years ago, people with disabilities in the United States had many battles to fight, and were marginalized, isolated, and […]
Weather Presents Challenges to People with Disabilities
Winter can be a difficult time for anyone to get around, but for people with disabilities, the issues are amplified. […]
Pete Feigal: Advocate for Change
Depression and other “mental illnesses” are physically real and can disable a person on a multitude of levels, negatively affecting […]
Reader Profile: Kathleen Hagen
Kathy Hagen is an attorney working on civil rights cases at the Disability Law Center in Minneapolis. Kathy is 50 […]