Illinois athlete believes current perceptions amount to ‘inspiration porn’ Washington, D.C., September 10, 2019 – Anastazia Kohout, an Illinois native with spina bifida whose competitive swimming career has cast her in the spotlight, wants people to see her individuality before her disability. Kohout just completed a summer Fellowship with Respectability, a nonprofit that fights stigmas [click to continue...]
Rockville, Maryland, September 9 – Jonathan Koch, an Emmy Award-winning television producer and successful entrepreneur, was a speaker for RespectAbility’s Summer 2019 National Leadership Fellows. The hour-long discussion focused on his career path, before and after he became disabled, and how to be successful at pitching yourself. Koch started his career as an agent for [click to continue...]
Washington, D.C., August 20 – At RespectAbility’s annual disability summit on Capitol Hill, Vincenzo Piscopo, community and stakeholder relations director for the Coca-Cola company, discussed how to transform society’s perceptions of people with disabilities. By changing the labels put on people with disabilities and giving them opportunities, people with disabilities can be just as, or [click to continue...]
Ana Kohout was a rising junior at Beloit College, where she was a double major in education and youth studies and disability studies. She hoped to become an elementary school teacher and work toward making schools more accessible.
