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    ALL ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY

    Jul 26, 2022 4 minutes
    AS TOLD TO HANNAH NOWACK

    i grew up in a society where the disability rights movement was just beginning to emerge. My battle with polio as a child, in the 1950s, led me to start advocating for disabled people. Clearly, a lot has changed in terms of public policy in the last 40 years, but I believe there’s still much to be done. I care deeply about intergenerational work and educating younger people about accessibility, especially since disabilities are not always visible. I’ve found that the “out of sight, out of mind” mentality contributes to a stigma around disabled people that I’m working to dismantle in all arenas, the wedding industry included.

    I met my now-husband, Jorge Pineda, in 1991,

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