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Guest: Eric Bridges, Executive Director of the American Council of the Blind.

Guest: Michael Beers, Comedian, Disability Activist, works for Summit Independent Living, and the Montana Youth Leadership Forum.

Guest: Andy Imparato, Executive Director of Disability Rights California.

Guest: Val Vera, disability rights activist, speaker, organizer and writer. He has intersectional experience as disabled Latinx, author of Crip Lyrics: the Unapologetic Poetry of Disability.

Guest: Rev. Cindy Jones, founder of the Center for Accessible Society.

Guest: Fred Pelka, author of What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement, along with several other books on disability history. He currently teaches a course on Disability Advocacy and Its History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Guest: Anil Lewis, Director of Advocacy and Policy for the National Federation of the Blind discusses the history and current priorities of the NFB, grassroots networking, and developing new leadership.

Guest: Andrew Elkins, Event and Marketing Manager at the Center on Disabilities at Cal State University, Northridge discusses the upcoming 37th Annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference.

Guest: Lillie Greiman, University of Montana, Project Director at the Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities, and DisDATA member, discusses data collection and representation of people with disabilities in rural America.

Guest: Josue Rodriguez, organizer with ADAPT National, Desert ADAPT and REV UP Texas, talks about grassroots organizing, including fundraising ideas like the FUN RUN for Disability Rights.