Urban Unrest

25 March 2006 | Programming | Ernesto Aguilar

Access This! will feature a four part series on Health and Wellness for Women with Disabilities beginning Sunday evening March 26th. This series will feature Kym King as host and Scotty MacClymonds as producer.

Kym currently serves as the Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities for the City of Houston. Prior to this appointment, King was Director of Education and Training for the Center for Research on Women with Disabilities and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. King also served as National Communications Director of “Improving Service Systems for People with Disabilities,” an $8.4 million grant project funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. King began her work in the disability field in 1983, when she was invited to be a member of the board of Directors for the Houston Center for Independent Living. She has provided expert advice and consultation to numerous disability organizations including: the World Institute on Disability (WID), the Southwest Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center (SWDBTAC), the Dole Foundation, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) and the Texas Governor’s Committee on Persons with Disabilities. She has won received numerous honors including a President’s Award from American Women in Radio & Television, the Public Relations Society of America’s Excalibur Award, the Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities Barbara Jordan Media Award and a Phoebe Award from the Texas PTA. She was also nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of children’s programming for the television special, “A Different Point of View,” a program that empowered elementary school children to share their views on world issues.

Our guest for parts one and two is Michele Colvard, who currently serves as Chair of the Houston Commission on Disabilities, works as a researcher with the Baylor College of Medicine and participates in wheelchair athletics. Dr. Peg Nosek will be with us in parts three and four. Dr. Nosek, Ph.D. received her doctorate in Rehabilitation and a Master of Arts in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Texas in Austin, and she holds a Masters of Arts in Music from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Nosek is currently a professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She has done considerable research and writing on developments of public policy that affect the ability of people with disabilities to live independently in the community. Dr. Nosek is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD), Department of Physical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She has served as the principal investigator on research projects on self-esteem, wellness, abuse and violence, reproductive health, sexuality, access to health care, aging with disability, secondary health conditions, and independent living for women with disabilities. Dr. Nosek’s accomplishments are reflected in approximately 75 articles or book chapters, and more than 100 presentations at national and international conferences. Dr. Peg Nosek is a recipient of numerous awards for her research and advocacy. As a person with a severe physical disability, she has been both a pioneer and an activist in the disability right movement, including vigorously supporting passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities has honored her as a “Disability Patriot.”

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