
Jessica Blinkhorn
Jessica Elain Blinkhorn is a successful interdisciplinary artist from Atlanta, Georgia.


Scott Crawford
Dr. Scott Crawford has a PhD in neuropsychology, the study of brain-behavior relationships.

Rachel Doud
Rachel Doud, originally from Oklahoma, moved to Birmingham in high school to join Lakeshore Foundation's women’s wheelchair basketball team.

Hasaan Hawthorne
Hasaan Hawthorne, a double amputee, is a two-time 6A wrestling state champion.


Dannie Llyr
Dannie Llyr (they/them) doesn’t let chronic pain from autism, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), dysautonomia or arthritis stop them from doing the things they love.

Bob Lujano
53-year-old Bob Lujano is a very skilled athlete, having competed in the Paralympics in Greece for wheelchair rugby.

Christen Mendonca
Dr. Christen Mendonca, originally from Massachusetts, has a PhD in Rehab Sciences and is very interested in research around people with disabilities.

Jerry Presley
Jerry Presley was a firefighter for many years before becoming paralyzed after falling from a building.

Ingrid Pfau
Birmingham native Ingrid Pfau, 34, was born with cerebral palsy on the right side of her body and was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was an 18-year-old undergraduate at UAB.

Zion Redington
Zion Redington is a 16-year-old up and coming wheelchair rugby and basketball star who was born with ectrodactyly.




Millie Slaughter
Millie Slaughter became blind after having a brain aneurysm at the age of fifteen.

Emma Taylor
Emma Taylor is a recent psychology grad from Charleston, SC, who has a form of cerebral palsy called hemiplegia that affects her right arm, leg and eye. .