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| Byline | Expertise | Bio |
|---|---|---|
| Susan Berry | Books | I have been a published author since 2015. I am co-owner of Restless Hearts Publishing since 2022. I studied Journalism at Pierce College where I wrote articles about such topics as social injustices and disabilities. |
| Daryl Perry | Pop Culture, Film, Television, Poetry, Music, Politics, Criticism, Lifestyle | Daryl Perry is a recent graduate from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and aspires to be a multimedia feature or investigative journalist. As a student, he worked with various student publications as a reporter and photographer, including The Diamondback, the university’s independent student newspaper. He has previously held internships at USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal and The Daily Dot. Outside of journalism, Daryl enjoys video editing, writing poetry and fiber arts. |
| Emrys Parker | Media, Pop Culture, Medicine, Law, Books, Fiction, Art, Music, Politics, Ethics, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, Criticism, Education, Feminism, Religion, LGBQT, Disability, Relationships, Service Animals, Lifestyle | Hi! My name is Emrys Parker. I identify as femme and gender fluid and use she/they pronouns. I am Autistic with moderate support needs and chronically ill. I am both physically and developmentally Disabled. Because I am Autistic, sometimes I struggle to express things verbally. I use writing as a tool to help me express things that are hard for me to express through speech. I am semi-speaking, meaning I am sometimes non-speaking and sometimes speaking. I really want to shed more light on the struggle that is the intersection of houselessness/homelessness and Disability, and how the two things effect each other. |
| Samantha Hurley | Media, Sciences, Politics, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, Disability | Samantha Hurley is a fourth-year journalism and Spanish major at the University of Georgia. She was drawn to journalism and storytelling because of her personal experience with having disabilities. Born with Albinism and therefore legal blindness, she had to adapt to her unique way of navigating a visually-centered world. Managing expectations, stereotypes and curiosities surrounding her disabilities from a young age, Samantha draws on these experiences to deepen her reporting, never shying away from the difficult questions. As a photojournalist, she builds on a lifetime of awareness about the visual world around her. Once told that photojournalism isn't about showing what you see, but how you see it, Samantha's visual work is uniquely intentional and indicative of a deeper understanding of the importance of visuals. She has reported on climate politics in Washington, D.C., covered protests and college sports. She is bound for France this August to cover the 2024 Paralympics for the Associated Press as a photojournalist and features community stories in her role as Photo Desk Editor at the Red & Black student newsroom. |
| Sonali Gupta | Pop Culture, Books, Film, Television, Architecture, Music, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, History, Criticism, Education, Americans with Disabilities Act, Feminism, Race, Disability, Relationships, Sexuality, Travel, Lifestyle, Beauty | I am a freelance writer, audio producer and editor from New Jersey. I’ve reported on disability, culture, COVID and global news stories for publications like The New York Times, Vogue, Catapult BuzzFeed and others. My essay on accessibility in Mumbai can be found in the anthology ‘Skin Stories’. I travel between Mumbai and New York and I'm currently based in New Jersey. I received by B.A in Economics from New York University and I'm recently graduated from NYU with a master’s in journalism. I'm looking for part-time, contract or full-time opportunities to write long and short form pieces as well as podcast or production gigs. Topics I'm interested in working on include advancing the disabled community, culture, race, ethics, finance and many others! Along with writing about my personal health journey in essays, I edit and create copy for websites and teach writing workshops. |
| Kelli Finger | Media, Pop Culture, Sciences, Books, Television, Fiction, Music, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, History, Americans with Disabilities Act, Food, Disability, Relationships, Sexuality, Service Animals, Technology, Travel, Lifestyle, Beauty | I’ve written for Royal Central, The Detroit Metro Times, Next Avenue, Mental Floss, Apartment Therapy and Apartment Advisor. I spent time writing articles for the Nebraska non-profit, outlook Business Solutions. Family, friends, and faith are the pillars of my life. I enjoy writing content to help members of the blind and visually impaired community live independently. I'm available for content writing, copywriting, editing and proofreading. |
| Elle Becker | Poetry, Fiction, Disability Culture, Disability Rights, History, Sexuality, Lifestyle | Elle Becker, an Arizona native, finds solace in the desert's embrace, calling it home despite her adventures elsewhere. Writing is her compass, guiding her through the twists and turns of life. When not immersed in the world of words, she treasures moments with loved ones, relishing the Arizona winter outdoors. She hides under a rock in the summer. A lover of art, literature, and crushing Scrabble victories, Elle dreams of embracing her inner dog enthusiast as a future crazy dog lady. She has previously won the Tempe Writing Competition in Poetry and was Highly Commended in the prestigious McLellan Poetry Competition. She has publications on Medium and in publications like Five on the Fifth, Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, The Mighty, and The Rare Bird Writes |
| Metamarie | Media, Books, Theatre, Poetry, Fiction, Politics, Disability Rights, Education, Americans with Disabilities Act, Religion, Disability, Relationships | I am an activist, rebel, and enjoying playing with words. I am trying to survive SC. I hope things get better for folks like me. |
| Grace Lapointe | Media, Pop Culture, Books, Film, Television, Theatre, Poetry, Fiction, Music, Politics, Ethics, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, History, Criticism, Americans with Disabilities Act, Feminism, Religion, Disability | Grace Lapointe is a writer from Massachusetts who has cerebral palsy. Her fiction has appeared in Kaleidoscope, Deaf Poets Society, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. Her essays have appeared in Thought Catalog, Wordgathering, as part of Grub Street's Why I Write series, and in The Body is not an Apology. Her interests include disability studies, literary criticism, literary/critical theory, fiction writing, personal essays, politics, feminism, film, and music. As an intern at Beacon Press in 2013, she wrote publicity materials for A Disability History of the US by Kim Nielsen. An essay that she wrote on Ursula K. Le Guin as a 20-year-old Stonehill College junior in 2009 was included on the syllabus for a 2019 college literature course on Le Guin. Fiction that she wrote as an undergrad has also been published. Grace is also a contributor at Book Riot. |
| Emmagayle Harper | Media, Pop Culture, Television, Music, Politics, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Feminism, LGBQT, Disability, Lifestyle, Beauty | Emmagayle Harper is a disabled journalist from Glasgow, Scotland. |