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Diverseability Magazine: Fall/Winter 2019 Your Employment, Business and Educaton Magazine for Today’s Diverse-Abled Community Fall / Winter 2019 2019 National Disability Disability Friendly Employment Companies Awareness Month Grow Your Business ALI STROKER Staging an Encore Why GSK ? BECAUSE WE LIVE AND BREATHE OUR VALUES What are you looking for? A company that sees what you can do, not who you are? An inclusive culture that welcomes different perspectives, experiences, and styles? A chance to add your ideas to a rich diversity of thinking? An opportunity to make a difference? Wouldn’t it be great if a company could answer all those questions for you. And, ask you to answer some of the biggest questions around like, what’s the future of healthcare? What does a truly global business look like? And how do you help millions of people worldwide to do more, feel better and live longer? www.gsk.com/careers GSK is an Equal Opportunity/ Affrmative Action Employer/Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran Fall/Winter 2019 Volume 4, Issue 2 84Ali Stroker: Staging an Encore FEATURES 12 Best of the Best: Disability-Friendly Companies 16 Disability:IN 2019 Wrap Up 40 How to Create Better Employee Experiences 42 What is National Disability Employment Awareness Month? 56 Kodi Lee Wins America’s Got Talent! Season 14 58 How Do We Bridge the Gap Between Ability and Disability? 74 Cultivating Inclusion 96 News Briefs IMAGES MCBRIDE/WIREIMAGE/GETTY WALTER BY PHOTO PHOTO BY WALTER MCBRIDE/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES DEPARTMENTS Diversity & Inclusion Careers B2B: DOBEs, DVBEs & 34 Verizon: Changing the Way People are 46 More Jobs Than Ever for People with Supplier Diversity Viewed Disabilities 60 Why WE Matter as Diverse Suppliers 36 One Company…One Culture…One 51 How to Tell Your Employer About a 66 Looking to Grow Your Business? World Disability 68 How to Build on Being a Disability- 38 Wells Fargo VP Pays it Forward 52 Don’t Assume the Visible Owned Business Community Education Life Without Limits 70 Making Strides to Beneft the Blind 76 $17 Million Aids Special Education 88 A Slam Dunk for Everyone and Visually Impaired Teachers in Better Training 94 Creating Confdence for the Visually 78 How to Succeed in Higher Impaired Education 80 A Look into One of the World’s Most Signifcant Problems 82 College is Hard, But it’s Doable Too Products, Technology & Advancements 102 TECH BYTES Adaptive Coat Saves Recess, Wearable Alert Device for People with Diabetes, Google Glass Helps Kids with Autism Read Facial Expressions, Assistive Technology Help Athletes Navigate Their Environment Advocates for Change Service Disabled 110 Calendar 100 Fearless Amputee Encourages 104 Putting Life Through the Paces 112 Advertisers Index Others to Face Anything 108 A Flash of Lightning 109 War Veteran Says Thank You by Creating Dog Toy An equal opportunity employer: d *It pays to know smart people *Refer a friend, colleague or neighbor for the Leidos External Referral Bonus Program and you could receive a one-time referral payment of $2,000. The program is open to persons unaffiliated with our business to assist Leidos in attracting, hiring, and retaining the very best talent in the United States. Through the inspired work of our diverse employees, we deliver innovative, scalable solutions for our customers. We do this with sustainability in mind, while caring for our employees and serving the communities where we live and work. leidos.com/careers/erp An equalAn equalopportunity opportunity employer: employer: disability/veteran disability/veteran From the Editor Stepping into the Limelight eeing people with disabilities on a TV series, the big screen or even in commercials hasn’t always been the norm. Actor portrayals have been Smore typical than an actual person with a disability playing a role. But no more. In honor of NDEAM (National Disability Employment Awareness Month), DIVERSEability Magazine is giving a standing ovation for those with a disability who are proudly stepping into the limelight so that more youngsters can point to a television or movie screen and say, ‘hey, they’re like me!’ Like Ali Stroker, our cover story on page 84, the very frst actress who uses a wheelchair to win a Tony Award. The 32-year-old, who won for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Ado Annie in Oklahoma!, says it’s “really cool” to see herself represented. “It didn’t feel like, ‘Oh, you did something to overcome being in a chair,’” Stroker said. “It was actually, ‘We’re recognizing you for being at the highest level of your feld.’ That’s what I’ve always wanted.” And what about America’s Got Talent’s latest winner Kodi Lee? The singing phenom—who is both blind and autistic—stole the hearts and minds of millions who were cheering him on through Season 14, including AGT judge and actress Gabrielle Union, who declares, “Kodi has literally changed the world.” We here at DIVERSEability can think of nothing better. Because when people with disabilities are represented, it changes the way we think about disability and inclusion in all walks of life and business. The 2,000 attendees at Disability:IN this past July can defnitely testify to that. Read the jam-packed Wrap-Up on page 16, and you’ll see “life-changing” as an overriding theme. In addition to our Best of the Best list of disability-friendly companies, we’re seeing even more jobs for people with a disability (page 46). Also, take a look at ways to create better experiences for all your employees (page 40) as well as how to make your business even more successful (page 66). Finally, we are thrilled to see companies like Verizon shattering stereotypes by launching their new Disability Collection of images. The company says the new image library aims to shed light on how the world views the disability community. We challenge all companies to step into the spotlight and follow suit to create a more inclusive, visible and well represented workforce. Can you imagine a world where we can all say, ‘hey, they’re just like me!?’ We can. Kat Castagnoli Editor, DIVERSEability Magazine @DIVERSEabilityMagazine @DIVERSEabilityMagazine @DIVERSE_ability @DIVERSEability 8 | DIVERSEability Magazine | www.diverseabilitymagazine.com cyc1_NAVAIR_Ad_DiversAbility_v2.indd 1 8/21/19 3:52 PM Contributing Writers CAITLIN BISHOP Caitlin Bishop is a Public Relatons Manager at The O’Hara Project, where she uses her Fall/Winter 2019 diverse experience in communicatons and marketng to develop and implement strategic Volume 4, Issue 2 PR programs for agency clients. Caitlin has worked with several non-proft organizatons, including Adaptve Training Foundaton, to create integrated communicatons programs to PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER Mona Lisa Faris raise awareness of their important missions. Caitlin has a B.A. in Communicaton Studies from Bloomsburg University. MANAGING EDITOR Samar Khoury EDITOR Kat Castagnoli ART DIRECTOR Miriam Wiegel BEN COLLINS SUBMISSIONS EDITOR Maggie Misri My name is Ben Collins; I am the Operatons Specialist at the Special Olympics Interna- ASSOCIATE SUBMISSIONS EDITOR tonal ofce in Washington, D.C. I have been working for Special Olympics for 27 years. I Hiliary Innerbichler have been a Special Olympics Maryland athlete for 39 years and partcipate in two sports: bocce ball and powerlifing. I was the frst athlete to be hired at Special Olympics HQ with DIGITAL MANAGER Karin Sweet an intellectual disability. ADVERTISING SR. ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Sheila Hill IRENE MBARI-KIRIKA SR. ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Julie White Irene Mbari-Kirika, inABLE Founder and Executve Director, is a dynamic, global strategic ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Katalina Villalba leader and an executve-level innovator who has created technology-powered special-ed- ucatonal environments to positvely impact the lives of marginalized populatons in Afri- DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS ca. Irene is a recipient of the Order of the 2016 Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW) award and Tonya Kinsey is a sought-afer speaker at various events, including the UNESCO, World Bank and Access Israel. She holds a Global Master of Arts (GMAP) degree in Internatonal Afairs from the PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufs University in Massachusets, USA. Deziree Josephs [email protected] META J. MEREDAY DIVERSEability Magazine is published Meta J. Mereday is an award-winning journalist with an extensive background in en- semi-annually by trepreneurship, diversity, marketng, healthcare, entertainment and community. Meta DiversityComm provided corporate communicatons support for many Fortune 500 Companies. Meta is a 9/11 frst responder and a sought-afer speaker. Meta’s board service includes Natonal DIVERSEability Magazine Associaton of Black Journalists (former board member) and Natonal Black Public Rela- 18 Technology Drive, Suite 170 tons Society, Inc. (founder). Also, Meta established organizatons focused on addressing Irvine, CA 92618 social inequites impactng veterans, senior citzens and diverse communites. SUBSCRIPTIONS JAESON “DOC” PARSONS Print Subscription: $18.00 for 2 years Doc joined the U.S. Army in June 2005 afer a successful career in the global derivatves Digital Issue: $11.99, Single Copy: $4.50 markets as a foreign exchange dealer, derivatve analyst and insttutonal broker. He [email protected] served as the platoon medic for Bravo Company, 3rd platoon in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. Doc diverseabilitymagazine.com earned a Combat Medical Badge for his actons in combat. Doc Parsons was honorably discharged (medical) in 2009 and, upon his discharge, enrolled in West Virginia University. Send submissions to In 2010, Doc created the Graft of War Project to help raise awareness for PTSD and TBI. [email protected] It has been featured on Maxim’s website, through IAVA’s Community of Veterans, as well as features in BusinessInsider.com, BoingBoing.com, Wired.com, Financial Times Germa- ny, Fox News and many others. Doc is a freelance correspondent for Force 12 Media and DIVERSEability Magazine is a diversity & inclusion SOFREP.com.
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