Joyce is pleased to have as her guests, the 2021 Paul Hearne Emerging Leaders Award Winners, Elijah Armstrong and Noor Perez, on the show. These young disability rights leaders will each explain what it means to them to have received this prestigious award in 2021 from the American Association of People with Disabilities. They will also share the current projects they are working on since receiving the award.
Joining Joyce and our 2021 Paul Hearne Award Winners, at the beginning of this show, are Marcie Roth, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the World Institute on Disability (WID), and Tinamarie Duff, Global Lead for Bristol Myers Squibb’s Disability Advancement Workplace Network (DAWN) people and business resource group. Marcie and Tinamarie will be discussing joint efforts by the Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration (GADRA), WID, the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, ONG Inclusiva, and Fight for Right to evacuate people with disabilities from Ukraine and what you can do to support these efforts.
Joyce is pleased to have as her guests, the 2021 Paul Hearne Emerging Leaders Award Winners, Elijah Armstrong and Noor Perez, on the show.