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As a writer for over 30 years, Candy has worked in a wide variety of markets. For the last 12 years she’s focused her efforts on accessible travel — travel for people with disabilities. Today she’s the editor of Emerging Horizons, an accessible travel magazine.
Widely known for her no-nonsense approach to access issues, Candy founded Emerging Horizons so that people would have a realistic view of accessible travel options. Emerging Horizons accepts no advertising in order to present an unbiased view of accessible travel. Candy currently serves as editor of this popular niche magazine.
As the author of Barrier Free Travel; A Nuts & bolts Guide For Wheelers And Slow Walkers, Candy is the recognized expert in the field of accessible travel. Billed as the definitive guide for accessible travel, the second edition of this popular title was released in June 2005. It contains detailed information about the logistics of planning accessible travel by plane, train, bus and ship.
Her second book, There Is Room at the Inn was released in May 2006. She is currently working on her next title, 101 Accessible Vacations.
Candy is also a contributing author to Kids On Wheels, a resource guide for wheelchair-using kids and their parents.
Candy’s work can be found in disability-related magazines including New Mobility, PN, Ability, SCI Life and Arthritis Today as well as mainstream publications such as the Dallas Morning News and Transitions Abroad. She covers accessible travel for the travel industry em>TravelAge West and Cruise Agent, provides internet content for travel websites such as BootsnAll.com, and pens consumer-focused accessible travel columns for Special Living, Travel World International, Go World Travel, Valley Views Magazine, Active Living and Stroke Smart.
As a member of the Board of Directors of Access Northern California, one of Candy’s main goals is to promote accessible tourism.
Candy resides in Northern California with her travel-photographer husband, Charles Pannell. They share their home with their ever-growing flock (birds, not kids). Candy is a member of the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) and the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).
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Carin Memmer is the chair of The Committee of the ADA Compliance Review of the California Courts. Carin is visually impaired and requested appropriate auxiliary aids and services for a court proceeding. Due directly to the lack of compliance with the ADA, the court forced her to use an untrained Spanish interpreter as an accommodation. This experience piqued her concern about ADA noncompliance in the Superior Courts of the state of California. In March of 1999, Carin performed a statewide telephone survey of the California courts. This survey showed that not one county has an ADA Court Program in place to accommodate any other disability besides hearing impairment(s). Carin has been organizing an ADA Compliance Review of the Courts since March of 1999.
Carin can be contacted by email carinmemm@aol.com
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Marta Russell has been a producer and a photographer whose investigative reporting earned her a Golden Mike Award for Best Documentary from the Southern California Radio and Television News Association in 1995. She was honored as co-producer/correspondent for the KCET Life & Times documentary entitled, "Disabled & the Cost of Saying 'I Do" on marriage disincentives in Social Security policy.
Disabled from birth, Russell began writing when her disability progressed. No longer able to work in the film industry, she navigated (and learned much about) the disability policy netherworld to survive. Focusing on the socio/economic aspects of disablement, Russell has been published in The Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union Tribune, New Mobility Magazine, Ragged Edge, Mouth, The Voice of Disability Rights, Review of Radical Political Economy, Left Business Observer and Z Magazine, among others. She was nominated for a MAGGIE award in 1995.
Russell's first book, BEYOND RAMPS, DISABILITY AT THE END OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT (Common Courage Press, 1998) received an Honorable Mention from the Outstanding Books Awards presented by the Gustavus Myers Program for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America at Boston University. Available from www.commoncouragepress.com.
Marta Russell can be reached at ap888@lafn.org
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Born and raised in San Francisco, Karen Stone, now 53, studied photography, and later obtained a B.A. in Communications from Antioch College. She then worked as a professional photographer for over twelve years in California. Later, upon entering the marketing field, Ms. Stone made use of her photography, writing, and business skills. After relocating to Albuquerque, New Mexico USA, she worked in marketing architectural/engineering services until slowed down by multiple sclerosis.
Ms. Stone produced an award-winning, bimonthly column for the Albuquerque Journal newspaper (MEETING THE CHALLENGE) for 10 years, and currently continues to write pieces for national magazines and additional publications overseas, both online and in hard copy. She has authored the non-fiction book, AWAKENING TO DISABILITY: Nothing About Us Without Us (1997, VOLCANO PRESS). She lectures frequently on disability issues, and continues to photograph unassigned work. Available from www.volcanopress.com.
Her website is www.nmia.com/~kgstone
You may contact her via email kgstone@nmia.com
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