By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
The co-founder of Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), Mary Lou Breslin has been a disability civil rights law and policy advocate for more than 35 years. Disabled herself, she played a key role in the creation of groundbreaking legislation –...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Nancy Armitage explored a lot of professions through four decades, including flight attendant, project manager, home care salesperson, and art instructor. She was also a lifelong artist who had watched her own mother descend into dementia from Alzheimer’s disease,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As a child in the northern mountains of India, Swaran Dhawan’s father often took her and her siblings to visit patients at a local hospital, many of them veterans of conflict suffering severe ‘shell-shock’ – now known as post-traumatic stress disorder. At the time,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Mark Foreman served in Vietnam in 1968 as a Navy Corpsman giving first aid to marines. After just five weeks, most of his hip was blown away in an explosion. He lay on a mountain for five days. During the eight months he spent recovering in a body cast, he decided to...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In her two decades running On Call Clinicians, the medical staffing company she founded in the Twin Cities metro area, Judy Goldetsky became very aware that long-term care facilities struggled to provide dental care for their elderly, poor, and disabled patients. The...
