Sandra Gail Lambert
Though Sandra Gail Lambert didn’t start writing seriously until her late 30s—publishing her first novel at 62—there are advantages to being a “late bloomer.”
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Ali Stroker
Ali Stroker made history as the first person in a wheelchair to appear on Broadway and win a Tony Award.
Mary Verdi-Fletcher
Dancer Mary Verdi-Fletcher founded Cleveland-based Dancing Wheels in 1980 as the US’s first professional dance company to include dancers with and without disabilities.
Stacey Park Milbern
Korean-American disability rights activist
Louise Sauvage
One of Australia’s most successful Paralympians.
CeCe Mazyck
Military veteran and Paralympian
Doris Irene Taylor
Meals on Wheels founder
Dorothy Cottrell
Disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was ‘the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age’ but is almost unheard of here
Dr Lisa I Iezzoni
In 1998, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni was the first woman to be appointed professor in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.
Stella Young
Referring to herself as a ‘crip’, Stella controversially challenged people in the way they perceived disability and what it means to live as a disabled person. She described ‘crip’ as a liberating word; a term that seemed to horrify people but that made her feel strong and powerful.