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28/09/2026

🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Stephanie Sanders, Owner and CEO, Walk In Thought Productions, LLC | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-09-17-2026/

In this warm episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk welcomes Stephanie D. Sanders, a transformational motivational speaker and performer from Lakeland, Florida, who first wrote to him years ago when he was president and CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind, and who later met him in person at the National Federation of the Blind convention in Orlando. Stephanie tells her story from the beginning: legally blind in one eye since birth but undiagnosed until kindergarten, treated through the University of Florida, and raised as the youngest of three by a mother who did not yet know why her daughter kept giving the wrong answer. She describes refusing to let her vision define her, the sports and cheerleading years, the basketball injury that ended her track-and-field and Olympic hopes, and the pivot that followed into sports announcing, a mass communications degree in radio, television and film production, and a career in entertainment.

From there the conversation follows her from a Seattle radio station in the early 1990s to Los Angeles, where an improv workshop at the Hollywood Black Film Festival drew unexpected praise from actress Cee Cee Michaela and convinced her to make the move. She talks about her CD, book and audiobook One More Day, sings a few lines of her song Hold On Tight on air, and joins Kirk in a candid exchange about intersectionality, privilege and disclosure, in which he recounts negotiating a car by telephone as Dr. Kirk Adams and then losing interviews the moment he walked in with a long white cane. Both return repeatedly to faith, resilience and the value of community, and the episode closes with how to reach Stephanie and with Kirk's invitation to join the Community Coalition at the Institute for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion.

28/09/2026

What We Inherit — and What We Must Build Next | By Dr. Kirk Adams, Executive Director, ISDI | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/what-we-inherit-and-what-we-must-build-next/

Here, Dr. Kirk Adams reflects on launching the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion on September 1, in a span of days that also brought the deaths of Dolly Parton, Wendell Berry, and Gloria Steinem. He writes candidly about his discomfort at honoring three white figures in a piece about a coalition devoted to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging, and he insists that the long struggle for freedom has been led, sustained, and repeatedly rescued by Black people, Indigenous people, people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, immigrants, workers, and countless others whose names never reach a history book. What he draws from each of the three is a lesson in using one’s gifts in service to others: Parton’s Imagination Library, whose Braille Tales partnership with the American Printing House for the Blind fills his own bookshelf with print-and-braille titles his two-year-old granddaughter brings him with the words “Grandpa, read book with your hands!”; Berry’s insistence that community is a daily practice rather than an abstract idea, the conviction behind Adams’s own philosophy of brightening the corner where you are; and Steinem’s advice to young women to listen to themselves rather than to her, together with her understanding that movements require infrastructure and not merely admired personalities.

The second half turns that inheritance into a demand. Honoring elders, Adams argues, means carrying the work forward rather than placing them on pedestals, and he is blunt that too many organizations invite younger and more diverse leaders into the room while keeping authority, visibility, relationships, and resources in the same hands. Mentorship must be mutual, he writes, because the goal is not to pass an old torch unchanged but to build a larger fire together. He closes with an invitation to become a Founding Member of the Coalition at https://community.i4sdi.org/coalition-founder, at $25.99 per month or $239.88 per year, with an honor-system rate of $15.99 per month or $119.88 per year for students and people who are unemployed and no application or proof of need required; a save-the-date for the in-person Launch Celebration on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Parkview Event Space, Sanctuary Room, 200 8th Avenue North, Seattle; and a GoFundMe campaign supporting the Coalition’s online community, mobile apps, accessibility, programming, and member resources. His closing line asks readers to become the ancestors that future generations will be proud to claim.

28/09/2026

Welcome, National Organization on Disability: A Sponsor Worth Forwarding to Your Employer | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Access Information News | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/welcome-national-organization-on-disability/

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Access Information News weekly newsletter, welcomes National Organization on Disability as the publication's newest Sponsor, effective Monday, September 28, 2026, and argues that this one is a genuinely different kind of Sponsor. Nearly every Sponsor comes to reach the newsletter's blind, low vision, deaf, deafblind, neurodivergent and disabled readership directly. NOD does not. Founded in 1982 by Alan A. Reich out of the United Nations International Year of Disabled Persons, and led since May 2024 by President and CEO Beth Sirull, the Washington, DC nonprofit sells to corporate human resources departments and works what Sirull calls the demand side of disability employment, changing how companies hire, onboard, accommodate and promote disabled workers. Rather than paper over that distinction, Di Blasi names it plainly: there are hundreds of organizations working on making you ready for the job, and very few working on making the job ready for you.

The article then does two things at once. For readers, it itemizes what an individual can actually reach without going through an employer, including an EnAble Learning licence at $100 a year, the Disability Inclusion Network at $199 a year, the free-for-jobseekers virtual career fair coming in March 2027, and NOD's October 1 showcase at the Times Center in New York. For the employers, HR leaders and caregivers those readers can forward it to, it lays out the Leadership Council, the Disability Inclusion Blueprint, the Leading Disability Employer Seal and NOD's à la carte Workforce Solutions, and makes the timing argument at the center of the piece: a final rule published August 21, 2026 takes effect September 21 and strips federal contractors of the 7 percent disability utilization goal and the self-identification invitation, leaving the business case to do the entire job alone. Di Blasi is careful to mark that reading as his own analysis rather than NOD's position, flags NOD's own research as unreplicated, and volunteers the fact that the Blueprint survey is paused for 2026. He closes by crediting Dr. Kirk Adams for the months of relationship-building between the April introduction and the August handshake, disclosing that Adams sponsors the newsletter himself, and thanking Beth Sirull and Amber Cecil for the conversation.

28/09/2026

The Doors Are Open: How to Join the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion | By Dr. Kirk Adams, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/how-to-join-the-ccsdi/

Here, Dr. Kirk Adams announces that the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion went live on September 1, 2026, opened not with a webinar or a panel but with an "Ask Us Anything" hour of questions, frustrations, ideas and lived experience. He explains what the Coalition actually is: a way for members to move from reactive, isolated survival mode to strategic, sustainable, collective power, built on four words, Connect, Learn, Act, Together. He is direct about who it is for, which is everybody, and equally direct that disability inclusion and accessibility are not a side room in it but a dedicated space by design. Inside, he describes three things above all others: BELONG, the peer circles where saying "I am overwhelmed" is met with practical help rather than judgment; CLARITY, a trusted translation layer of plain-language briefings and expert-guided sessions; and POWER, the shared tools, cross-sector strategy and coalition-backed influence that turn isolated effort into coordinated action. In practice that means Ask the Experts office hours, a Member Lounge and Directory, a growing Resource Library, a Rapid Response Hub for the moments that will not wait, legislative and legal updates, podcasts featuring DEIAB voices, and a shared calendar of events worth your time.

He then makes the ask, and it is not a request to stand on the sidelines and cheer. Founding Membership, he writes, is not early access but co-authorship: Founding Members help design the membership tiers, the codes of conduct, the governance and the very DNA of what this becomes, they carry the Founding Member designation permanently, and their founding rate never increases while their membership stays active. He gives the numbers plainly, with no small print. Founding Membership is $25.99 per month or $239.88 per year, which works out to $19.99 a month, and there is an honor-system rate for students and people who are unemployed at $15.99 per month or $119.88 per year, $9.99 a month, with no application, no paperwork and no requirement to prove that you belong. That window closes on December 31, 2026, after which standard membership is $35.99 per month or $359.88 per year. Joining takes three steps at https://community.i4sdi.org/coalition-founder, with the DEIAB Community Coalition app available for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play, and he closes with a save-the-date for the in-person Launch Celebration on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Parkview Event Space in Seattle, plus a tax-deductible GoFundMe for anyone who wants to do more. His closing argument is that the Coalition should become a joyous rebellion against fear, isolation, division and hate: RESIST, JOIN, BELONG, BUILD THE FUTURE.

28/09/2026

6th Annual NDEAM Webinar From Helen Keller National Center And Helen Keller Services For The Blind | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
📅 Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 2:00–3:30 PM ET
🔗 Learn More: https://www.helenkeller.org/events/ndeam-webinar-2026/
✏️ Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bMTNcOnLQl6V5ZWqCyHEbw

📍 When & Where

Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 2:00–3:30 PM ET • Online via Zoom • FREE for all.

❓ Why Attend

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and the U.S. Department of Labor's 2026 theme, "Celebrating Value and Talent," carries special weight as the nation marks its 250th birthday. Helen Keller National Center and Helen Keller Services for the Blind continue their annual tradition of promoting employment opportunities and workplace awareness for people who are DeafBlind, blind, or have low vision. New for this milestone year: a series of spotlight conversations — focused 10-to-15-minute sessions with each speaker on their professional stories, the current state of employment for people with disabilities, and where the field is headed — closing with live audience Q&A.

🎤 Meet The Speakers

👉 Dina Grilo — Deputy Head, Office of Disability Affairs, JPMorganChase.
👉 Kirk Adams, PhD — Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Diversity & Inclusion.
👉 Kathy West-Evans, MPA, CRC — Consultant and Co-Owner, Abilities United Consulting.
👉 Michael MacKillop — Executive Director, Washington State Department of Services for the Blind, and Chair, NCSAB Careers & Business Relations Committee.

👥 Who Should Attend

👉 Counselors and leaders of state vocational rehabilitation and blind services agencies.
👉 Community service programs and agencies.
👉 Employers and businesses.
👉 Individuals who are blind, DeafBlind, have vision loss or other disabilities.
👉 Nonprofit organization and foundation staff.
👉 College and university employees.

♿ Accessibility

This webinar includes American Sign Language interpretation, spoken English interpretation, live captions, audio description, accessible presentation materials, and transcripts. Additional accommodation requests go to Jennifer Falls at [email protected] by October 1, 2026.

📧 Questions: Joseph Melillo, National Employer & Business Relations Specialist, Helen Keller National Center — [email protected] | 631-432-4823

28/09/2026

Recording: Official Launch of The Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion | ISDI | By Dr. Kirk Adams, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/ccsdi-launch-09-01-2026/

Here, Dr. Kirk Adams shares the full recording of the September 1, 2026 public launch of the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion, the national membership community created by the Institute for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion to help people working in diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging move from reactive, isolated survival mode to strategic, sustainable, collective power.

Board President Dr. Joseph Marth opens the hour, ISDI's co-directors, board members and community advisors each speak to why this work is personal to them, and Jacob Davidson walks through the Coalition's new home on the Circle platform. A complete transcript accompanies the video, so the event can be read at your own pace, with a screen reader or a refreshable Braille display. Founding membership is open through December 31, 2026.

28/09/2026

When Disclosure Costs You the Interview: Seattle's Disability:IN Chapter Takes on the Question I Lived | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/seattles-disability-in-chapter-takes-on-the-question-i-lived/

Here, Dr. Kirk Adams tells the story of the impossible choice that shaped his career. In 1983, fresh out of Whitman College with a degree in economics, he could either say nothing about his blindness and watch an interview collapse the moment he walked in with a long white cane, or disclose it at the top of his cover letter and stop getting phone interviews altogether. Two bad options, and no third one on offer. He connects that experience directly to "The Courage to Be Human at Work: Vulnerability, Access, and Connection," a free 90-minute webinar hosted by Disability:IN Washington on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, and led by Linea Johnson, Founder and CEO of The Thrive Shift. Its central question, he writes, is one he recognized on sight: how do we create workplaces where people don't have to choose between protecting themselves and belonging?

He also traces his own long history with the organization, which began in Seattle at The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc., where Marthalee Galeota sent him to his first national meeting and the Lighthouse went on to host chapter meetings for WSBLN, the Washington Business Leadership Network that is this chapter's direct ancestor. Along the way he sets the record straight on where the Business Leadership Network actually came from: a 1994 initiative out of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, with the national network co-sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Labor. He closes with a plain ask. He has registered, the event is free and anyone can join, and the people who most need to hear a session on disclosure are very often the managers who have never once had to think about it.

28/09/2026

🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #111: Interview with Priscilla Gagne, Paralympic Athlete, Judo Canada | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-09-16-2026/

In this genuinely uplifting episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA welcomes three-time Paralympian Priscilla Gagné, who traces a path from a childhood in Granby and Sarnia, where doctors spent more than two decades cycling through diagnoses before landing on a rare, then-unstudied form of retinitis pigmentosa, to a silver medal in Para judo. Gagné describes a home where she was allowed to scrape her knees and a school system that would not let her run, the two years at W. Ross Macdonald School that taught her to advocate for herself, and the rugby team that made her the water girl and gave her the same ribbons as everyone else. She walks listeners plainly through how para judo classification and weight classes actually work, and is candid that the hardest part of moving to the national training centre in Montreal was not the training volume but the years when almost nobody would partner with the blind athlete on the mat.

The through-line is belief as a discipline rather than a mood. Gagné explains what ninety percent of a fight being mental actually looks like in practice, lyric-free music so the imagery stays hers, fight-by-fight rehearsal, and saying "I want to be here" out loud until she meant it, and describes rehearsing the Rio nerves in an elevator doorway until they lost their grip. She is equally direct about the everyday work of access: drive the car yourself, be patient with people who have never met a blind athlete, and insist on training partners who have both skill and empathy, because either one alone fails. Donna closes by inviting her to speak for her Believing is Achieving initiative, and Gagné shares what is next, a green card, judo and self-defence programmes in American schools for the blind, and a massage therapy certification to carry her through the transition.

28/09/2026

🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #112: Interview with Brian Moore, Senior Accessibility Specialist, TD | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-09-17-2026/

In this candid episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA welcomes Brian Moore, a blind digital accessibility leader at TD Bank whom she has known for many years, for a conversation that runs from an eleven-year-old taking the bus alone in Montreal to a senior role auditing a national bank's apps and websites. Brian traces a career that began in 1994 at a small Calgary assistive technology organization in the DOS era, moved through close to twenty years of tech support at Frontier Computing in Toronto, and became a self-taught specialty in web and document accessibility once AODA compliance started bringing people to his door. Along the way he is unusually frank about what he learned from the other end of the support line, about tokenism in earlier jobs, about automated scanners catching only thirty to forty percent of accessibility issues, and about the day he had to ask his eleven-year-old son to sign his own employment background check because the form was inaccessible.

The heart of the episode is a barrier Donna and Brian hit roughly two decades apart. Both were blocked from a professional certification not by the subject matter but by diagrams no human reader could neutrally describe, and both walked away with the knowledge and without the paper. Brian argues the fix is structural rather than personal: standardized alternative descriptions supplied by the test provider, delivered to a computer rather than read aloud by a person. They close on the discipline of picking your battles, the ones Brian has lost, and his conviction that advocacy has to leave room for actually living a life.

28/09/2026

📅 The Aiming High Foundation First Annual Homecoming Gala With Founder Darren Prince | October 1, 2026 | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
🔗 Learn More: https://www.aiminghighfoundation.org/events
✏️ Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-aiming-high-foundation-first-annual-homecoming-gala-tickets-1993020973382

📍 When & Where
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 6:00 PM–10:00 PM ET • The Grove, 691 Pompton Avenue, Cedar Grove, New Jersey 07009.

❓ Why Attend
The Aiming High Foundation's inaugural Homecoming Gala brings together recovery advocates, community allies and supporters for an evening of keynote speakers and live entertainment, celebrating the lives changed by the foundation's work. Every ticket and every gift funds treatment for someone who could not otherwise afford it.

💙 What The Foundation Does
The Aiming High Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with one concrete purpose: removing the financial barriers that stand between a person and addiction treatment. Its stated goal is to build a model that communities across the country can replicate.

👤 About The Founder
Darren Prince is the foundation's founder, international bestselling author of "Aiming High," and a sports and celebrity agent whose Prince Marketing Group has represented Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Dominique Wilkins, Ric Flair and David Goggins. Sober since July 2, 2008, he speaks openly about addiction and mental health recovery, reaching high-functioning professionals, at-risk executives and teens.

🧭 Why This Belongs In The Disability Conversation
Addiction recovery and mental health are disability issues, and cost is an access barrier like any other. When someone cannot reach treatment because they cannot pay for it, that is an access problem we already know how to name — and one we know how to fix.

👉 Tickets are required; this is an in-person event.
👉 Refunds are available up to seven days before the event.
👉 Cannot attend? The foundation takes donations directly: https://www.aiminghighfoundation.org/donate

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