Episodes
Oct. 16, 2018
Programs and Services of Disability:IN
Joyce welcomes Keri Gray, director for the Rising Leaders Initiatives and Becky Curran, Disability Equality Index (DEI) Program Manager at Disability: IN. This non-profit organization promotes an inclusive global economy that...
Oct. 9, 2018
Mission of OVR to Help People with Disabilities
Joyce welcomes Marci Katona and Shannon Austin, District Administrators for the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry's Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR). Both guests will discuss in-depth their disability advoc...
Oct. 2, 2018
2018 Sam Miller Award Winner
Joyce welcomes Jayla Youngblood, winner of the 2018 Sam Miller Award; Gerald Homme, chairman of the Bender Lead On Team: and Ginny Emerson, mother of the late, Sam Miller, to discuss the Bender Lead On Team support group. The...
Sept. 25, 2018
Mission of Benetech Technology Company
Joyce welcomes Jim Fruchterman a leading social entrepreneur, MacArthur Fellow and CEO of Benetech, a nonprofit technology company based in Silicon Valley, which creates e-books and other technology innovations for people wit...
Sept. 18, 2018
Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Joyce welcomes Sherry Lapaglia, Manager Talent Programs, Gerald Homme, Recruitment Specialist, and Scott Hammerstrom, Team Lead, Talent Programs with Bender Consulting Services, Inc. Discussed on the show will be employment o...
Sept. 11, 2018
Jimmy Krenn, Pittsburgh Comedian Returns to Disability Matters
Joyce welcomes back to the show, Jimmy Krenn, Pittsburgh comedian and former morning-drive radio host for WDVE FM and Q-92 FM. Jimmy will discuss his extensive career in stand-up comedy and radio broadcasting and his latest c...
Sept. 4, 2018
Mission of Not Dead Yet
Joyce welcomes Diane Coleman, president of Not Dead Yet, a national, grassroots disability rights group that opposes legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia as deadly forms of discrimination against old, ill and disab...
Aug. 28, 2018
Mission of Disability:IN
Joyce welcomes Jill Houghton, president and CEO of Disability:IN, formerly known as the U.S. Business Leadership Network (USBLN). Disability:IN embraces the full inclusion of people with disabilities in the labor force and ma...
Aug. 21, 2018
Mission of Audio Eye Inc.
Joyce welcomes Todd Bankofier, CEO of Audio Eye, Inc. AudioEye provides enhanced web access and usability for its customers. AudioEye’s custom and proprietary digital accessibility platform testing suite automatically detects...
Aug. 14, 2018
The Launch of the Disability Collection
Joyce welcomes Tari Hartman Squire, founding CEO of EIN SOF Communications, Inc, JD Michaels, executive vice president, director creative engineering/director of Diversity at BBDO Advertising Agency and Alec Frazier, director...
Aug. 7, 2018
Vicki D'Avanzo, Stellar Support Services
Joyce welcomes Vickie D’Avanzo, the owner of Stellar Support Services to the show. Founded on March 27, 2017, Stellar Support Service offers “habitation aid” services to individuals that are Deaf/Hard-of Hearing (HOH) with an...
July 31, 2018
Mission of Disability Rights Pennsylvania
Joyce welcomes Jeniece Davis, attorney and board chair, of Disability Rights Pennsylvania (DRP). Also, on the show will be Peri Jude Radecic, chief executive officer of DRP. The organization protects and advocates for rights ...
July 24, 2018
The Honorable Tony Coelho and the Anniversary of the ADA
Joyce welcomes The Honorable Tony Coelho, former democratic congressman from California and author of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to the show. As we get ready to celebrate the 28rd anniversary of the signing of ...
July 17, 2018
Dara Baldwin with National Disability Rights Network
Joyce welcomes Dara Baldwin, senior public policy analyst for the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN), the nonprofit membership organization for the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and Client As...
July 10, 2018
Andy Imparato with the AUCD
Joyce welcomes Andy Imparato, executive director of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD). AUCD is a membership organization that supports and promotes a national network of university-based interdiscip...
July 3, 2018
Judy Heumann, and senior fellow Ford Foundation
Joyce welcomes Judy Heumann, senior fellow with the Ford Foundation, since September 17, 2017, to the show. Ms. Heumann will discuss her role in this capacity and her long career as an internationally recognized social justic...
June 26, 2018
Lydia X.Z. Brown, Writer and Disability Advocate Discusses Work.
Joyce welcomes Lydia X. Z. Brown a disability justice advocate, organizer, and writer whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply-marginalized disabled people, specializing in institutionalization, incarcerati...
June 12, 2018
Western PA Disability Right History
Joyce welcomes John L. Tague Jr. to the show. Mr. Tague is Principal owner of Disability Consulting Services, LLC in Pittsburgh, PA. Also, on the show will be Anne Madarasz, director of the Curatorial Division, Chief Historia...
June 5, 2018
Bender Leadership Academy
Joyce welcomes Staci Dojonovic-Schutzman, Transition Coordinator at Fox Chapel Area School District in Pittsburgh, PA to the show. Ms. Dojonovic-Schutzman will discuss the Bender Leadership Academy Program and the Pay Checks ...
May 29, 2018
Founder and CEO of Ruh Global Communications Discusses Mission
Joyce welcomes Debra Ruh, Founder and CEO of Ruh Global Communications. Ruh Global is strategic communications and digital marketing firm helping corporations strategically include people with disabilities. The firm encourage...
May 22, 2018
Bender HighTest Team Discusses Mission
Joyce welcomes Johna Gravitt and Jim Homme to the show. Johna has served as an Accessibility Consultant at Bender Consulting Services, Inc. for over 3 years. Jim has served as a Digital Accessibility Consultant in various cap...
May 15, 2018
PA - Commitment to Hiring People with Disabilities
Joyce welcomes Secretary Curt Topper from the Pennsylvania Department of General Services to the show. Appointed on January 20, 2015 by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolfe and confirmed by the state Senate on March 12, 2015, Secr...
May 8, 2018
Wells Fargo Bank: Empowering Employees with Disabilities
Joyce welcomes Kathy Martinez, Senior Vice President, Disability Market Segment & Strategy, Wells Fargo Bank to the show. Ms. Martinez is a former U.S. Assistant Secretary at the Department of Labor, in the Office of Disabili...
May 1, 2018
Mission of Office of Disability Employment Policy -ODEP
Joyce welcomes Jennifer Sheehy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) at U.S. Department of Labor to the show. ODEP is the only non-regulatory federal agency that promotes policies a...