National AccessAbility Week and becoming a Rick Hansen Foundation School Program Ambassador

This week, May 25-31, is National AccessAbility Week, founded and inspired by Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion World Tour in 1988. It’s especially exciting for me this year, as earlier this month I was selected as an Ambassador for the Rick Hansen Foundation School Program!

The RHFSP starts conversations about disability in K-12 classes, provides schools across Canada with education and awareness tools to create more disability-inclusive classrooms and communities, and promotes understanding and empathy through the sharing of lived experience.

Growing up with little to no disability representation, and without the language to talk about it, since I was undiagnosed for my whole childhood, it feels amazing to know that I’ll get to be part of the disability representation for students that I never had. My first virtual presentation is this Friday, for all the grade 7s and 8s in the Renfrew County District School Board (!!!) as part of their programming for National AccessAbility Week!

NAAW celebrates Canadians with disabilities and raises awareness of the need for accessibility and inclusion for all in our communities. So happy to be part of the cause! 🙏🏽🎉✨