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Podcast: Pushing Forward with Alycia | A Disability Podcast
Episode: The Future We Choose: Tony Coelho, the ADA, and America’s Next Chapter
Description: In this episode of Pushing Forward with Alycia, I sit down with the Honorable Tony Coelho, retired U.S. Congressman and the principal author of the Americans with Disabilities Act, for a conversation that reaches far beyond disability policy. It’s a history lesson, a civics class, and a moral compass all in one thirty minute session.
As a nation founded in defiance of oppression and animated by the promise of freedom, we need the values in this conversation now—dignity, equal access, and the courage to stand up to power with truth and love. This is not just a disab...