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Colleen Kelly Starkloff Talks Disability

Advocate, trainer, and lecturer on disability issues is available for presentations and seminars

Colleen Kelly Starkloff is amplifying her effort to raise awareness on disability related issues by offering Colleen Starkloff Talks Disability, a collection of speeches, presentations, workshops, and trainings to help the non-disabled world better understand and include people with disabilities.

Ms. Starkloff has over 40 years’ experience working in the field of Disability. During her career, she has trained thousands of people to welcome people with disabilities into various aspects of society. She brings her background as a national disability rights leader, as well as her public speaking, facilitation and training experience, to companies seeking methods and advice on welcoming people with disabilities into their workforce.

Ms. Starkloff is a sought-after speaker and thought leader on a variety of subjects related to employment of people with disabilities, disability rights, disability history, Universal Design and the emancipation of all people with disability. Her lived experience as a person with disability and wife of disability rights leader, the late Max J. Starkloff, makes for poignant, direct conversation and presentations about how people with disabilities can live, work and participate fully in our society as equals.

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You can learn more or request a booking on Colleen’s webpage at http://starkloff.org/s/cstarkloff2/ or by calling the Starkloff Disability Institute at 314-588-7090. Media contact: Lori Becker, Starkloff Disability Institute, at email lbecker@starkloff.org or phone 314-588-7090.

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