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This week on Barrier Free Futures, Bob interviews Dara Baldwin. Dara Baldwin is an activist, scholar, and author with over twenty years of experience in policy and social justice work. She currently runs her own equity consulting firm DMadrina, LLC.

This week on Barrier Free Futures, Bob interviews Tony Coelho, Former US House member. Introduced the ADA, Disability Rights Advocate.

This week on Barrier Free Futures, Bob interviews Michelle Bishop, the Manager of Voter Access & Engagement at National Disability Rights Network.For more info visit www.ndrn.orgFor a transcript of this program, visit https://bff.justwork.io/

Eric Welsby is the Advocacy Director of Detroit Disability Power.

This week on Barrier Free Futures, Bob interviews Jim Ward, Founder Executive Director of ADA Watch and Coalition for Disability Rights & Justice, CDRJ.

This week on Barrier free Futures, Bob brings on Bill Henning who has over four decades in disability rights as an organizer and administrator advancing services and civil rights via direct action, legislative advocacy, and organization participation in class-action ADA lawsuits, using community and individual empowerment of PWD as the framework.

Bob kicks off Disability Pride Month and the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with a conversation about the limitations of guardianship/conservatorship with guests Dr. Ronald Bassman, Executive Director of MindFreedom International, and Misty Dion, CEO of Roads to Freedom for Independent Living of North Central Pennsylvania.For a transcript of this program visit https://bff.justwork.io/

Guest: Stephen Gold is a nationally renowned disability rights attorney and has spent a third of a century fighting alongside people with mental and physical disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act Legacy Project called him “the foremost attorney in the disability rights movement."

For 20 years until June 2020, was a staff attorney then managing attorney at Disability Rights DC at University Legal Services (the DC P&A). she has been litigating the Brown case from 2010 through the second trial in 2021, along with AARP Foundation and law firm Terris Pravlik & Millian.