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| Ingrid Tischer | Media, Pop Culture, Film, Fiction, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, Americans with Disabilities Act, Food, Disability, Lifestyle | Based in the Bay Area, Ingrid Tischer is a fundraiser and blogger who writes disability culture and policy commentary. Her writing is a mix of the serious, the sardonic, and the sincere that uses personal essay, opinion, spoof, and parody forms to convey the emotional landscape of lifelong disability and the waxy bummer build-up that comes from ableism. She recently launched the Disabled in Development Project™(DiD), a stigma-busting, story-telling outlet for disabled, chronically ill, and aging people who work in fundraising and philanthropy. DiD's goal is to amplify their expertise on how to put disability inclusion principles into practice. Ingrid is also advancing #FundDisAdvocacy, a critique of the comparative lack of advocacy funding for disability human and civil rights in grantmaking. She is currently serving as a Trustee for the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, a disability-led, disability-centered micro-grant-making group of disabled activists. Ingrid worked for the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Breast Cancer Action, Equal Rights Advocates, Legal Aid at Work, SF LGBT Community Center, and as a consultant before joining Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) in 2011 as their Director of Development. Her media advocacy experience has involved working in coalition with the Labor Project for Working Families, MomsRising and The Impact Fund. Her writing has also appeared in The Progressive, Ragged Edge, off our backs, and other outlets. She holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy from The American University. She is a member of the 1995-96 Women's Health Leadership cohort, and has served as a member of the California Asset-Based Community Development faculty. You can find Ingrid at her website, Facebook, and Twitter @IngridTischer Recent clips: DREDF, October 2018: #FundDisAdvocacy Twitter Chat, Disability Advocacy and Philanthropy DREDF, June 2017: No Roll-Backs On My Civil Rights: A Past Plaintiff on Opposing H.R. 620, the ADA Notification Act Tales From the Crip, September 2016: My FEDup ™Rant: RespectAbility, Class and Race Privilege, and Leveling the Erring Field Ingrid is available as a source and for personal essays and opinion editorial Additional communication availability: Phone, chat, videoconference (video and voice): Please note that it may take Ingrid up to one business day to reply, particularly for requests originating outside the Pacific Time Zone. Languages: English Muscular Dystrophy, Scoliosis, Aging, Class, Philanthropy, Fundraising, Disability Narratives, Assisted Suicide, abortion, Education, Education Access, Americans with Disabilities Act, Working, Gender, Grantmaking, Ableism |
| Therí A. Pickens | Media, Pop Culture, Books, Television, Poetry, Music, Politics, Disability Culture, Disability Rights, History, Food, Feminism, Race, Disability, Relationships, Sexuality, Lifestyle, Beauty | See website |
| Elizabeth Campbell | Politics, Disability Culture, Disability Rights, Disability, Service Animals, Technology | I have been blind since birth, and I am a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. I've held various reporting positions including covering civil courts, education and economic development. I currently cover suburban communities where I focus on accountability journalism. |
| Diane Shipley | Pop Culture, Books, Film, Television, Disability Culture, Disability Rights, Feminism, Disability, Lifestyle | I'm a freelance journalist and essayist covering pop culture (especially as it relates to women, disabled people, and other marginalised groups), books, and health. Bylines include The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Times, The Times (UK), Mental Health Today, Lit Hub and Vice. |
| Jay Tee Rattray | Media, Pop Culture, Television, Politics, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, History, Disability | I’m Jill, I’m 41, and I love watching television and I love writing about i I’m Jay, I’m in my 40s and I love watching television and I love writing about it. Because of various health problem I don’t get out much, so television and the internet. I’m passionate about increased inclusion of disabled people in front and behind the camera in television and film. And I am vehemently against disabled mimicry or “cripping up” as it’s better known, and I’m passionate about better representation of disabled people, not just in terms of casting but in terms of how we’re written and how issue that affect us are written about. I’m based in Scotland in United Kingdom, and I can also write about issues that affect disabled people in the UK, particularly Scotland. I’m autistic and I have ADHD, chronic migraine, and arthritis. I've appeared on the West Wing Weekly and across the internet. The West Wing Weekly interview http://thewestwingweekly.com/episodes/219 Transcript https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56e27eb82fe131d8eec3a4e3/t/5a6773b2652dea06c82a902a/1516729267033/2.19+-+Bad+Moon+Rising.pdf |
| Katherine Schneider | Medicine, Books, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, Religion, Service Animals | Katherine Schneider, Ph.D. is a retired clinical psychologist living in Eau Claire, WI with her ninth Seeing Eye dog. Katherine has published a memoir, To the Left of Inspiration: Adventures in Living with Disabilities; a children’s book, Your Treasure Hunt: Disabilities and Finding Your Gold; and a book for seniors, half of whom will develop disabilities, Occupying Aging: Delights, Disabilities and Daily Life. She originated the Schneider Family Book Awards for children’s books with disability content through the American Library Association and an award for superior journalism about disability issues through the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Locally, she started the Access Eau Claire fund through the Eau Claire Community Foundation to help non-profit organizations work toward full inclusion of people with disabilities. She’s a passionate advocate for access for all to the good things of life. Subscribe to her blog for details. You can find Katherine at her website and Facebook |
| Ace Tilton Ratcliff | Media, Pop Culture, Sciences, Medicine, Books, Film, Television, Theatre, Poetry, Fiction, Art, Music, Politics, Ethics, Philosophy, Military, Sports, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, History, Criticism, Education, Americans with Disabilities Act, Food, Feminism, Race, Religion, LGBQT, Disability, Relationships, Sexuality, Service Animals, Technology, Travel, Lifestyle, Beauty | Ace Tilton Ratcliff lives and works in sunny Boynton Beach, Florida a pack of wild beastlings. Their activism is focused on disability justice, since they live with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, endometriosis, and a host of other issues. They’re an artist, photographer, and model who co-owns an in-home veterinary practice called Harper’s Promise with their husband after six years of work in the human deathcare industry as a funeral director, embalmer, and crematory operator. They write nonfiction and fiction. They have bylines at places like io9, Huffington Post, Catapult, Narratively, Eater, The Establishment, Bustle, Bitch Media, Fireside Fiction, and Uncanny Magazine. They've performed sensitivity reads for places like Penguin Random House, Rosen Publishing, and Blazing Griffin. Their voice as a disability activist has also been featured in The Economist, The Guardian, and Chuck Wendig's Terrible Minds. Ace has been featured on several podcasts, including Maximum Fun's Reading Glasses, WNYC's Note to Self, Flash Forward, and Disability After Dark. They've also were the focus of an Upworthy video about fighting for accessibility as an ambulatory wheelchair user. If Ace isn't trying to break their perpetual to-be-read mountain into smaller piles, they’re probably tweeting @mortuaryreport |
| Hanner Goenaga | Books, Fiction | I'm a foreign language teacher, I speak English, French and Spanish and I already published a short story ''Dustin and The Flying Umbrella in a book for children Flyleaf Chronicles in New York. Now, I want to publish my firts book The Blue-Eyed Wizard and The Island of Exiles. |
| Joe Stevenson | Music, Disability Rights, Disability | Although it took me quite a while to realise the sort of work I needed to take on after university, it became much more clear that I wanted to be a writer after starting my blog offering information, advice and opinion about epilepsy and disability. My blog post writing skills are probably strongest point, but I have journalism and copywriting skills when needed. I’ll be happy to learn about and promote products and services that genuinely work well for others. I know more about epilepsy than any other disability but am also a keen member of the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP). I've learned more about other disabilities, the history of disabled people’s rights and am very interested in writing more articles to raise awareness of disabled people’s issues - especially in the UK. I’m also fully in support of equality, and will be happy to help raise awareness of any sort of discrimination currently taking place in society. I achieved BA degree in Popular Musicology in the UK back in 2012, which gave me a decent knowledge about the history and culture of popular music. I also picked up music journalism skills and would be happy to write popular music-related articles or reviews if needed too. I live in Manchester, UK, and know a fair bit about my city too. I’m proud to have been born and bred here – it’s considered by many as first industrial city, and has since built up an amazing culture, relating to things like music, arts, media, sport, and nightlife. It’s an entertaining place for any people to explore, and I’d be willing to write relevant articles to discuss or promote anything around my town when it seems appropriate. |
| Steven Aquino | Media, Sports, Accessibility, Technology | I am a freelance tech reporter who covers all thingsApple and accessibility. |