2010 Paul G. Hearne AAPD Leadership Award
Don Dew, Hays, KS
Don Dew works through his organization, ReachOut USA, to ensure full equality for the four million Americans who have a disability and are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). ReachOut USA works to make LGBT groups more responsive to people who have disabilities and at the same time make disability groups more responsive to the LGBT community.
"This award has strengthened my determination to continue to represent and serve all people with all disabilities or chronic illnesses and to obtain the goal of outreach and collaboration between the disability and LGBT communities to achieve full independence and inclusion for everyone," Dew explains.
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Lawrence Carter-Long, New York, NY
After several years spent working in the animal protection community, Lawrence Carter-Long moved over to the Disabilities Network of NYC, an organization that brings people, organizations, governement and industry together to find solutions to the problems faced by New Yorkers with physical, visual and hearing disabilities, and works for full inclusion of people with disabilities into the vast civic, social and economic life of New York City. Carter-Long eventually became Executive director of the organization.
"Five years ago when I left my previous career to focus primarily on disability rights, I was determined to use the skills I'd developed to further access and inclusion for everyone. Winning AAPD's Hearne award affirms that decision, and holds me accountable to it. I am grateful--and eager to utilize the opportunities the Hearne award provides to take my advocacy efforts to thenext level," Carter-Long said.
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