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  Dylan Orion Patrick Mears, May…

  Dylan Mears is a nonbinary and multiply-disabled person, and a founding member of the Disabled and Ill Student Coalition at the University of Kentucky. At the…
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  Winter Sherman, May 18, 2022

  In this interview (conducted May 18th, 2022 in Louisville, KY), Winter Sherman discusses their roles as autistic and plural self-advocates, including helping…
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  Bailey Patterson, May 26, 2022

  Bailey Patterson is a multiply-disabled activist from Jabez, Kentucky, and is an Interdisciplinary Disability Studies and Theater major at University of…
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  Katie Baumann, May 20, 2022

  Katie Baumann is a Kentuckian residing in Richmond who has cerebral palsy and dysgraphia. In this interview, she discusses her life with these disabilities,…
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  Brandon Nichols, June 2, 2022

  Brandon Nichols is a student at Berea College originally from Versailles, KY with a particular interest in communications and history. In this interview, he…
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  David Madden, June 6, 2022

  David Madden is the oldest Berea College student at the time of recording, going back to school after his disability pushed him out of retail. In this…
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  Tristen Boyer, June 7, 2022

  In this interview, Tristen Boyer (a disabled and chronically ill student at the University of Kentucky from Louisville) discusses her life in Kentucky with…
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  Amanda Stahl, June 9, 2022

  A member of the “ADA generation”, Amanda Stahl is a white cisgender queer disabled woman from Kentucky. She has a developmental disability and is a wheelchair…
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  Kimberly Parsley, June 9, 2022

  Kimberly Parsley is a blind mother of two with multiple disabilities from Western Kentucky. In this interview, she discusses accessibility, the medical and…
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  David Allgood, June 13, 2022

  David Allgood, Director of Advocacy at the Center for Accessible Living (CALKy), discusses his experiences with disability, his work with CALKy, accessible…
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  Gabrielle Runyon, June 15,…

  Gabrielle Runyon is a disabled self-advocate with spinal muscular atrophy type 2 from Louisville, Kentucky. She is a Kentucky State Ambassador of the Muscular…
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  John Victor, June 24, 2022

  John Victor shares his experiences as an African American man with dyslexia who also works with RETAIN (Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness…
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  Christopher Rudolf, June 28,…

  Christopher Rudolf, MSW describes living with Chron’s Disease and working with retirement communities and currently as a Return to Work Coordinator with RETAIN…
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  Jace Peters-White, June 28,…

  Jace Peters-White is an autistic and queer artist and advocate who also identifies as having a minor physical disability. They are particularly involved in…
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  F. Darrell Mattingly, Jr.,…

  F. Darrell Mattingly, Jr. is a computer specialist at the Human Development Institute, and serves on both statewide and local committees in order to advance the…
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  Melanie Potts Piazza, June 30,…

  Having a mobility disability herself, Melanie Potts Piazza is the Executive Director of the Kentucky Center for Accessible Living, and has done extensive…
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  Amanda Smith, July 2, 2022

  Amanda Smith is a disabled and hard-of-hearing social worker with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) (formerly known as pseudotumor cerebri). In this…
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  Nolan Blakeman, June 23, 2022

  Nolan Blakeman reflects on their life as a late-detected autistic person with ADHD, as well as a queer person. They discuss social media as a tool for…
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  Rae Bandy, June 27, 2022

  Rae Bandy is a multiply-disabled Jewish non-binary lesbian who graduated from the University of Kentucky in May 2022. In this interview, they discuss the…
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  Ocean Nazari, June 29, 2022

  Ocean Nazari is a queer Persian person who happens to be autistic and have a variety of other disabilities including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and an…
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  Micah Peace Urquilla, July 8,…

  Micah Peace Urquilla is a nonbinary autistic person and activist with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome “and Friends”. They are a founding member of the Kentuckiana…
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  Tina Jackson, July 11, 2022

  Tina Jackson is a disability rights advocate who was born with cerebral palsy, and then became nonverbal and partially blind after experiencing a stroke at 24.…
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  Norb Ryan, July 5, 2022

  Norb Ryan discusses having had Cerebral Palsy his whole life, and spending decades in disability advocacy work. He has worked at Cardinal Hill, The Human…
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  Nathan French, July 5, 2022

  Nathan French is a deaf wheelchair-user due to Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy. At the time of this interview, he is enrolled in graduate school for social work…
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  Marlene Huff, July 6, 2022

  Dr. Marlene Huff is a wheelchair user with muscular disease from rural Eastern Kentucky. In this interview, she describes growing up and experiencing the…
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  Erin Stretch, July 11, 2022

  Erin Stretch is a 30-year-old bookstore employee in Lexington, Kentucky with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). In this interview, she shares her experiences with…
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  Cass Irvin, July 15, 2022

  Cass F. Irvin is an author and activist from Louisville, KY who has been a wheelchair user since she contracted polio at age 9. She played a major role in the…
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  Kathy Szinnyey, July 15, 2022

  Kathy Szinnyey has been blind since birth due to retinopathy of prematurity (formerly known as retrolental fibroplasia (RF)), being a part of the large cohort…
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  Kara Ayers, August 3, 2022

  Kara Ayers, PhD, is a wheelchair and service dog user with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) who is from Frankfort, KY, but now lives in Cincinnati, where she is the…
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  Ellie Browning, August 8, 2022

  Ellie Browning is a young neurodivergent Filipino-American woman with dysgraphia (and potentially other comorbid conditions). At the time of recording, she is a…