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March 15th 2022: Elijah Armstrong/Noor Perez: 2021 Paul Hearne Award Winners

Joyce is pleased to have as her guests, the 2021 Paul Hearne Emerging Leaders Award Winners, Elijah Armstrong and Noor Perez, on the show. These young disability rights leaders will each explain what it means to them to have received this prestigious award in 2021 from the American Association of People with Disabilities. They will also share the current projects they are working on since receiving the award. Joining Joyce and our 2021 Paul Hearne Award Winners, at the beginning of this show, are Marcie Roth, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the World Institute on Disabilit

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Elijah Armstrong

Elijah Armstrong graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he earned his Masters in Education Policy and Management. Following graduation, he worked as a Dean’s Education Fellow with Boston Public Schools. Elijah graduated with his Bachelors in Education and Public Policy from Penn State. While there interned in the office of Congressman Ed Perlmutter, and the office of Senator Bob Casey through the American Association of People with Disabilities. He is currently a fellow at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Elijah also founded Equal Opportunities for Students where he runs the Heumann-Armstrong Award, an educational award for students with disabilities.

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Noor Perez

Noor Perez is a student organizer turned disability and LGBT+ educator, community organizer, public speaker, and Internet researcher. He focuses on the intersections of disability, race, gender identity, sexuality, and religion. Noor is on the board as an accessibility leader at Masjid al Rabia, a queer, trans, and woman-centered and led mosque. He is an AAPD Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award recipient and is using the funding to begin the process of making an Easy Read translation of the Holy Qu’ran. This project is deigned to make learning about Islam accessible for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Noor has bylines at Rooted in Rights and the Disability Vi

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https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1315/disability-matters 25/04/2024 08:00 25/04/2024 09:00 Disability Matters https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1315/disability-matters Joyce is pleased to have as her guests, the 2021 Paul Hearne Emerging Leaders Award Winners, Elijah Armstrong and Noor Perez, on the show. These young disability rights leaders will each explain what it means to them to have received this prestigious award in 2021 from the American Association of People with Disabilities. They will also share the current projects they are working on since receiving the award. Joining Joyce and our 2021 Paul Hearne Award Winners, at the beginning of this show, are Marcie Roth, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the World Institute on Disability (WID), and Tinamarie Duff, Global Lead for Bristol Myers Squibb’s Disability Advancement Workplace Network (DAWN) people and business resource group. Marcie and Tinamarie will be discussing joint efforts by the Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration (GADRA), WID, the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, ONG Inclusiva, and Fight for Right to evacuate people with disabilities from Ukraine and what you can do to support these efforts. VoiceAmerica | Talk Radio | Online Talk Radio studio@voiceamerica.com false DD/MM/YYYY

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