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"No Brakes: Mobility and Self-determination for All" is designed to create an innovative platform around the new generation of disability rights and social change. "No Brakes" carries with it an implicit double-meaning. First, that we as individuals with a disability do not request "brakes," or unnecessary restrictions, placed upon us. We are autonomous individuals for whom self-determination must be achieved. Second, that we do not request "breaks" in life, or to have expectations of our capabilities lowered due to persistent stigma. If placed within a accessible social and physical environment, we will live up to our full potential as individuals. Please, explore No Brakes to learn how these concepts may be broadly applied to promote motility and self determination for all.
No Brakes is currently on pause! While Cheri completes her medical internship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston she has chosen to invest all of her time and energy into her work as a physician. She will be back to blog, compete, travel, and bring you all along for the adventure... momentarily. Please stand by.
Our Long Walk to Freedom
On January 10th of this year I embarked upon a task of herculean proportions, a feat that I knew would take me to the ends of the Earth, an intellectual journey riddled with risk, challenge, triumph and tragedy. My task: to finish all 751 pages of Long Walk to Freedom, the autobiography Nelson Mandela. For those to whom encyclopedia reading is a daily endeavor, I’m sure you’ll be tempted to chuckle at my overdramatic description of… a book. To me, however, this was a monumental life journey.... Read More »
