AAPD Staff Member
Dana Fink
Programs Manager
Dana Fink works to support and develop a wide portfolio of programs, including AAPD's Summer Internship Program, Disability Mentoring Day, Paul G. Hearne AAPD Leadership Awards and the Higher Education Project. Prior to joining AAPD in January 2011, Dana worked for Paralyzed Veterans of America and Georgia Public Broadcasting. She is a former AAPD summer intern for Senator Tom Harkin's HELP Committee office.
Dana graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.A. in International Studies and dual minor in French and East Asian Languages and Cultures. While attending the University of Illinois, Dana studied abroad at the Beijing Language and Culture University where she completed a Capstone thesis project with the China Disabled Persons' Federation.
Dana competed on the University of Illinois Fighting Illini women's wheelchair basketball team on an athletic scholarship. There she was a two-time wheelchair basketball national champion and an Academic All-American winner. Dana is also an active rower, training for the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games.
Dana is deeply engaged in the UNESCO Intergenerational Leadership Training Programme and in 2010 traveled to Rwanda to collaborate with Rwandan and global youth human rights leaders on culture of peace initiatives.
Latest News
- The American Association of People with Disabilities Welcomes Introduction of Voter Empowerment Act
Lara Schwartz | 05/17/2012
- AAPD Interfaith Initiative Director Ginny Thornburgh honored for advocacy and outreach
Lara Schwartz | 05/16/2012
