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Jessica Blinkhorn

Jessica Blinkhorn

Jessica Elain Blinkhorn is a successful interdisciplinary artist from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Janice Buffet

Janice Buffet

Janice Buffett is 67 years old and has osteoarthritis in her knees.

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Scott Crawford

Scott Crawford

Dr. Scott Crawford has a PhD in neuropsychology, the study of brain-behavior relationships.

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Rachel Doud

Rachel Doud

Rachel Doud, originally from Oklahoma, moved to Birmingham in high school to join Lakeshore Foundation's women’s wheelchair basketball team.

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Hasaan Hawthorne

Hasaan Hawthorne

Hasaan Hawthorne, a double amputee, is a two-time 6A wrestling state champion.

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Erica Juett

Erica Juett

Erica Juett is a 51-year-old African American woman who had a stroke in 2016.

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Brent Lee

Brent Lee

Born Deaf, Brent Lee is a husband, father, and baker.

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Dannie Llyr

Dannie Llyr

Dannie Llyr (they/them) doesn’t let chronic pain from autism, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), dysautonomia or arthritis stop them from doing the things they love.

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Bob Lujano

Bob Lujano

53-year-old Bob Lujano is a very skilled athlete, having competed in the Paralympics in Greece for wheelchair rugby.

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Christen Mendonca

Christen Mendonca

Dr. Christen Mendonca, originally from Massachusetts, has a PhD in Rehab Sciences and is very interested in research around people with disabilities.

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Jerry Presley

Jerry Presley

Jerry Presley was a firefighter for many years before becoming paralyzed after falling from a building.

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Ingrid Pfau

Ingrid Pfau

Birmingham native Ingrid Pfau, 34, was born with cerebral palsy on the right side of her body and was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was an 18-year-old undergraduate at UAB.

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Zion Redington

Zion Redington

Zion Redington is a 16-year-old up and coming wheelchair rugby and basketball star who was born with ectrodactyly.

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Joon Reid

Joon Reid

Joon Reid, or “J,” is a recreation assistant and sous chef at Lakeshore Foundation as well as a left leg above-the-knee amputee.

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Joey Richey

Joey Richey

Joey Richey was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of twelve.

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Karneshia Shantel

Karneshia Shantel

Karneshia Shantel is a 32-year-old woman originally from Mississippi.

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Millie Slaughter

Millie Slaughter

Millie Slaughter became blind after having a brain aneurysm at the age of fifteen.

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Emma Taylor

Emma Taylor

Emma Taylor is a recent psychology grad from Charleston, SC, who has a form of cerebral palsy called hemiplegia that affects her right arm, leg and eye. .

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