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AJ Martins
AJ is the founder of Don’t Burn the Day Media Company which aims to provide a fresh perspective on the disability community and inform the

Alyssa Kumle
Alyssa Kumle is a 24 years old graduate of the University of Georgia. She has a degree in Human Development and Family Science with a

Angad Sahgal
Angad Sahgal is a passionate young man with a great love for food, soccer, art, animals, and family & friends worldwide. He is naturally drawn to

Angela Fowler
Angela Fowler is a website developer, digital accessibility advocate, and assistive technology trainer. With decades of experience working in the digital space, Angela is looking

Brandon Cantrell
Brandon Cantrell is a talented young man who enjoys beading, knitting, sewing and embroidery. But his passion lies with crochet where the repetitive hand movements

Brandon Winfield
In 2008, Brandon Winfield (he/him) was injured in a motocross accident that left him with a thoracic spinal cord injury (paralyzed from the waist down).

Brett Swanson
Brett is one of the founding members of the Three Basketeers – a non-profit organization with the goal of providing meaningful work for adults with

Charles Ledgister
Charles is from a rural city in Georgia with a population of less than 4000 people. After losing his vision in 2015, Charles knows and feels the

Christopher Saunders
Christopher loves all things ART. He graduated in May 2019 Magna Cum Laude from Heritage High School where he is a member of the Performing

Cole Smith
Cole is a 22-year-old artist who enjoys creating pottery. After working on his craft for many years, Colton now finally feels confident enough to showcase

Connor Ensign
Connor Ensign is a young man who is passionate about art- all kinds of art! He loves music, theatre, animation, architecture, and of course his

Dana Jones
Dana Jones is an author and entrepreneur with a disability. She believes that everyone deserves to live life and not just live in it. She

Daniel Abadi
Daniel is a voice over artist with a passion for bringing commercials, audio books, and narrations to life using his vocal skills. Daniel has completed

David Ginyard
David Ginyard is a cartoonist and animator with a passion for classic cartoons. David has autism and found that cartoons helped him tap into his

Derek Juwan Heard Jr.
Derek Heard is a 20-year-old young man who attends Lee County High School in Georgia. He is a blossoming self-advocate and artist who enjoys food,

Dimelza Broche
Dimelza Broche is a Jacksonville, Florida based Cuban artist. She attended the Leopoldo Romanach Academy of Art in Santa Clara, Cuba. She studied for two

Dr. Cohiscan L Thomas-Anderson
Take the first two letters of each word in Columbus High School Annual and you get the name Cohiscan. In 1969, the year Cohiscan was

Endrian Banks
Endrian Banks is a certified nursing assistance with more than 15 years experience in healthcare. After being diagnosed with a brain tumor, seizures, and aphasia,

Eren Niederhoffer
Eren Denburg Niederhoffer is an Autism Self-Advocate who graduated in 2012 from Marshall University as the first Autistic student in their Honors College. He has

Jaehn Clare
Jaehn (pronounced “Jane”) is a theatre artist with more than forty years of experience as an actor, director, producer, playwright, touring artist, teaching artist, access advocate/activist, and

Jasmine Duffey
Jasmine Duffey is a music engineer and a blind entrepreneur. With more than a decade of experience creating, producing, and mastering music, Jasmine is looking

Jonathan Gross
Jonathan is a photographer with a passion for nature and wildlife photography. He is able to see a ‘photographic opportunity’ that an untrained eye might easily

Jong Bin Hahn
My name is Jong Bin Hahn. I really enjoy painting and find art the best expression of my thoughts and feelings. I am at my

Jordan Levin
Jordan understands that phrase on the cellular level. He’s been a fighter since the day he was born—three months premature, weighing only 31 ounces. Two

Joshua Williams
Joshua Williams is an accessibility consultant with Cerebral Palsy. After graduating from Georgia Southern University, Joshua experienced firsthand the lack of accessibility in his native

Juvaes Stratton
Artist Juvaes Lavelle started his adolescence like most boys do; as an athlete. For him art was simply a hobby. It was not until his

Kevin Lyons
Kevin is a young man who has always liked art. Pieces of his art were put in the permanent collection of both his middle school

Kimberly Kye
I like to play on my computer, listen to music, and paint. I live with my parents and sisters. For the first time in my

Lauren Dubrinsky
Lauren Dubrinsky is a native New Yorker and artist, who moved to Atlanta 33 years ago at age of 23. After being a stay-at-home mom

Leslie Evans
As an independent and a thriving single, blind mother Leslie knows all about organizing and problem-solving. She plans to leverage these skills and launch an

Maie Hotard
Maie Hotard, a teen in Atlanta, Georgia. She is autistic and uses limited words to communicate. She finds joy and love in gorgeous rich colors.

Mary Silayillah
Since childhood, Mary has struggled with the demons in her head who are always pulling her down. Her anxiety has held her back and she

Melissa Marcus
My name is Melissa Marcus. I am 26 years old, and I am on the autistic spectrum. I have always loved many types of art

Minna Hong
I am a serious curious dabbler. Throughout my life, dabbling has always been a great source of therapy and joy. It’s my happy place. The

Mirranda Williams
Mirranda Williams describes herself as an original Georgia Peach that has been transplanted to Baltimore Maryland. She is a s Summa Cumlaude graduate of Morgan

Nandi Isaac
Nandi is a lively young woman with a passion for community and a deep desire to help people save their memories. Some years ago, a

Nick Papadopoulos
A T-shirt offers a simple way to make an impact. It can proclaim an identity, communicate a social message, and spark a conversation. Nick Papadopoulos

Noah Seback
After experiencing the challenges of being a non-speaking autistic individual firsthand, Noah is developing his consulting business that helps mentor other non-speaking autistic individuals as

Paola Blanco
Paola Blanco is a website developer and the founder of Pixels n Paper – a digital marketing company that focuses on creating accessible websites and

Peter Tran
Peter Tran is the first nonverbal person in the world to get certified as a life coach with the International Coaching Federation. Peter & his

Pooja Bhatnagar
Pooja Bhatnagar is an artist with autism who creates beautiful abstract compositions. Since she was young, Pooja has been non-verbal and labeled as severely autistic

Rachel Gray
My name is Rachel Gray and I am 32 years old. I was born in Atlanta Georgia. I enjoy painting and sculpting, but I especially

Shanterria Lawrence
Shanterria was born and raised in Tallahassee Florida but moved to Atlanta four years ago. She has a graduate degree in social work and her

Sheryl Yeager
My name is Sheryl Yeager, I have Autism and have been making art for over 15 years. As achild I came from a dysfunctional home

Solange Lord
Solange is a private music teacher with a passion for teaching piano and voice lessons for beginners. In 2018, she graduated from Brenau University with a

Sophia Pineda
Sophia is a young lady with a passion for art, dancing, music, family, friends, and fun. She also happens to have Down syndrome. As

Stancil Tootle
After 30 years recovering from drugs, Stancil is a certified Peer Specialist through the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse, the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network,

Stephany Glassing
At the age of 19, due to a car accident, I became paralyzed. The years after this became my journey, which has become a very fulfilling

Travis Evans
Travis Evans is an author, life coach, and motivational speaker. After suffering several strokes at a young age, the doctors said Travis would never be

Trevor Dealy
Trevor Dealy is the founder of Trev’s Trades, an artisan soap business. Trevor has autism and a range of medical conditions. It is fair to

Yu Qian Yip
Yu Yip is an artist and pottery maker with the goal of growing his art business through our i2i Incubator. One of his greatest pleasures

Zach Wincent
Zachary Wincent is a young man with Down Syndrome. After he was furloughed from his job and day program during the COVID-19 pandemic, Zach started