This week, Amos Miller from the company Glidance joins Sam and Charlene. He will be talking about the product Glide.. To get on our email list, weekly show updates, or if you want to provide feedback, email us at [email protected]!
Robb Leer, the new head of Partners in Policy Making joins Sam and Charlene this week along with a handful of graduates of Class 41! They all will talk about their experience in learning and gathering resources to help advocate for People with Disabilities. To get on our email list, weekly show updates, or if you want to provide feedback, email us at [email protected]!
This week, Sam and Charlene talk with Wendy Fagan, Executive Director, of Envision Blind Sports. She discusses her new venture for kids! To send us comments, or guest re.commendations, or get on our weekly email updates, email [email protected]. Also, PLEDGE! Call us at (612) 375-9030! Or pledge at KFAI.org!
This week, Nic Novicki, Founder and Director of the Disability Film Challenge, talks to Sam about the project. He also talks about what a loop group is and how people wih disabilities can get involved with a loop group!! Feedback on this show is appreciated, tou can email us at [email protected].
This week Professor Joseph Gaugler from the U of M’s Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation, speaks with Sam and Charlene about Alzheimer’s. They discuss questions such as, what do we know now about the disease? They also talk about if the disease has changed over time.
Mickey Carolan joins Sam and Charlene this week to discuss his book (Mom Dad Not Hear: Lessons on Leadership, Life, and Love from my Deaf Parents.). To contact us, send an email to [email protected]
This week, aid-in-dying legislation in Minnesota Dr. Rebecca Thoman leads the campaign to pass the Minnesota End-of-Life Options Act on behalf of the Compassion & Choices, the country’s largest nonprofit dedicated to improving care and expanding options at the end of life. She trained in Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota and has worked in public health policy for more than 2 decades. Matthew Sanford is the author of Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence. The 2006 memoir recounts Matthew’s journey to healing and mind-body connection following a car accident that left him paralyzed at the age of 13. Mr. Sanford founded Mind Body Solutions (mindbodysolutions.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming trauma, loss and disability into hope and potential by awakening the connection between mind and body.
