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Guest: Rhoda Gibson, ADAPT National Activist, Lead Co-Chair: Accessible, Affordable, Integrated Housing Workgroup.

Guest: Rebecca Cokley, Ford Foundation U.S. Disability Rights Program Officer.

Guests: Stancil Tootle host, Tuesday's with Tootle, a weekly web show on issues facing the disability community; and Gaylon Tootle, Co-Chair of REV UP Georgia, 2nd VP of National Federation for the Blind, Georgia, and Independent Living Advocate Coordinator at Walton Options.

Guest: Ryan Wilson, Director of Team Trust Productions (a team of video editors, producers, and videographers) discusses their upcoming and past projects, including works featuring the Paralympics.

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."

Guest: Emily Ladau author of Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally.

Guest: Reyma McCoy-McDeid, Executive Director of the National Council On Independent Living.

Guest: Michael Gamel-McCormick, Director of Disability Policy for Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), discuss the Build Back Better Plan, the Better Care, Better Jobs Act, and eliminating institutional bias.

Guest: Helena Berger, Executive Director and Co-coordinator of REV UP Virginia discusses voting, voting rights, the importance of the disability vote, and the upcoming elections.