Oral Historian, Community Partner, Co-Curator with Temple University’s Center on Disabilities
September 2014 - May 2016
Exhibit in State Capitol Rotunda, Harrisburg, PA, October 2015
Exhibit in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA, March - April ​2016

About Here.
Approximately 1,000 Pennsylvanians with Intellectual Disabilities live in state centers, while another 16,000 are served by sheltered workshops and adult training programs. Whether we see them is, for many of us, a function of whether we choose to look. Whether or not we make that choice, these places are here, and they belong to us.

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Here: Stories from Selinsgrove Center and KenCrest Services invites you to meet nineteen people with intellectual disabilities who live and work in Pennsylvania. The settings (a state center and a sheltered workshop) may be new to many of us, but they are a part of our shared history. Here. provides a bridge to the lives of our "narrators" by way of eighteen volunteer "interviewers" who visited them at the Selinsgrove Center and KenCrest Services in the spring of 2015. Over the course of two months, people who would never have had the opportunity to meet came together. They shared meals. They were interviewed and photographed. Our interviewers saw settings that they didn't know existed and engaged with people who didn't communicate in traditional ways. They considered what it means to live and work apart from the community, to be "other." Our narrators, in turn, expressed feelings of validation, the kind that comes with being heard, and being seen as the expert author of one's own experience.