Interview with Stephanie Thomas conducted by Trevor Engel and Sarah Rose, August 17, 2017

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Interview with Stephanie Thomas conducted by Trevor Engel and Sarah Rose, August 17, 2017

Interview Topics:

Childhood and parental information
Living experience in Uganda and Nigeria
Activism and disability experience at a young age
Difference between American and other countries views on disability
Acquiring her disability
Gender and disability
Disability experience in Nigeria
Harvard’s inaccessibility and efforts for a change
Learning how to drive
Early thoughts on protest
Transition of types of mobilization
Living, working, and experience at the Rehab facility in Fiji
Accessibility in Massachusetts in the 70s
Inaccessibility with airplanes and buses
Getting ideas without any involvement
Justin Dart and moving to Texas
Beginnings of ADAPT
Job experience at El Paso
Working with ARCIL and the dynamic in Austin

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Interviewee:

Thomas, Stephanie (biography)

Topic:

Service Organizations, Physical Disability, Advocacy, Women and Gender

Keywords:

Accident, Disability rights, Protests, Spinal Cord Injury

Persons:

Thomas, Stephanie

Organizations:

ADAPT, ARCIL, Inc.

Interview Date:

2017-08-17

Interviewer:

Engel, Trevor

Length:

01:43:05

Identifier:

20084881

Publisher:

UT Arlington Libraries

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Rights Holder:

University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections

License:

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)