This year's featured speakers include: John D. Kemp, lawyer and expert on
disability issues and services as well as President and CEO for Very Special
Arts, an international organization that provides learning opportunities
through the arts for persons with disabilities. - Clarence Page, Pulitzer
Prize-winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Author of Showing My
Color, Impolite Essays On race and Identity. - Robert 'Bobbv" Silverstein,
Director of the Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy and
Associate Professor with over 25 years experience negotiating and drafting
public policy and providing assistance to policy makers at the Federal State,
and local levels. - Julie Pratt, Project Director of On The Outside, a
compilation of oral histories of people with disabilities who once lived in
institutions. - Aria Ralston, Playwright of On The Outside who uses her
artistic talents to bring about social change by conducting community
workshops about the creative process. - Howard Cobb, a citizen who once lived
in institutions and now fights for the basic rights that most people take for
granted by sharing his oral history through On The Outside.
For conference itinerary, contact The Governor's Planning Council for People
with Disabilities at (317) 232-7770 voice, (317) 232-7771 TTY or e-mail
GPCPD(AT)in.net. Registration forms will be available in September.