Oct 9, 2015 | Conversations
Hi, I’m Chris Rosa, University Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the City University of New York. My brother and I are huge Bruce Springsteen fans. We’ve been to 107 shows together. People collect all kinds of different things; we happen to collect concerts. I’m...Oct 8, 2015 | Conversations
My name is Jason Sammut. I am a positive person. It’s always been my nature and it definitely didn’t change when I had the accident. When I was a teenager I suffered a high-level spinal cord injury, leaving me paralyzed from the shoulders down. When some friends and...Oct 8, 2015 | Conversations
My name is Vidya Ramchan, and I’m a senior at York College. I came to America from as a child from Guyana, where people with disabilities had no healthcare. i was kept home and away from most activities. Born with cataracts, multiple surgeries did not repair my eyes,...Oct 8, 2015 | Conversations
My name is Javier Alvarado. I’m a junior at Baruch, studying Public Affairs. I want to do something in Foreign Policy, either with the United Nations or the State Department. I also work at the V.A. hospital with veterans both young and old. I served eight years in...Oct 8, 2015 | Conversations
My name is Marybeth Melendez. My life has always been about new beginnings in spite of overarching obstacles. A perfect example happened in February of 2008. I was forty-one years old, a single mother of three, living on a disability pension, and barely surviving. My...
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