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KPBS Celebrates Diversity
Every year, KPBS recognizes heroes in San Diego's diverse communities. It's part of our ongoing commitment to diversity, and made possible through our long-standing partnership with Union Bank.
Nominations for Hispanic Heritage Month, Disability Awareness Month, and Native American Heritage Month are due June 9, 2013.
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Black History Month
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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Jewish Heritage Month
LGBT Pride Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Disability Awareness Month
American Indian Heritage Month
Laurel Moorhead on Being 'One of Many'
Disability Awareness Month: 2012 Honoree
- Oct. 2
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In the course of your life, there are moments that pass undetected, and moments that are life changing. The latter are the ones that can overwhelm you, give you hope or open a new door.
Louis Frick: A Life in 'Perpetual Motion'
Disability Awareness Month: 2012 Honoree
- Oct. 2
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Louis Frick was living the California dream. As a young man, the San Diego surf was all he needed. In fact, you could say, the ocean was his life. Then tragedy hit.
Pamela Finkel
Disability Awareness Month: 2011 Honoree
- Oct. 5
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Pamela Finkel is a professor emeritus, counselor and an advocate for the academic success of students with disabilities. Ms. Finkel has dedicated her life to making sure students with disabilities have the necessary resources to ensure their educational success. For nearly 20 years, she has been a professor at San Diego Community College (SDCC). Her work with SDCC includes the Disability Support Programs & Services (DSPS), a campus resource center that provides academic support, counseling services and reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities, helping them to be independent and achieve their academic and vocational goals.
Bill Bodry
Disability Awareness Month: 2011 Honoree
- Oct. 5
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Bill Bodry is the founder and president of the Challenge Center, which he established after a spinal cord injury left him paraplegic at the age of 27. Faced with the challenge of finding affordable medical and physical therapy services, Mr. Bodry has made it his life's work and mission to provide programs and services to people living with severe disabilities. The Challenge Center has been recognized as one of the fifteen "Best of the Best" nonprofit rehabilitation facilities in the nation by the Christopher Reeves Foundation. In 2010, Mr. Bodry received San Diego’s ABC/Channel 10 News Leadership Award.
