I was sitting in front of a room full of students at a youth empowerment camp on the Arizona-Mexico border when a disability justice advocate named Naomi Ortiz looked at me and said, calmly but directly, “What you’re doing isn’t helpful, Spencer.” I had just finished describing my proudest professional achievement: summiting Mount Kilimanjaro on my hands and in my wheelchair while raising over half a million dollars for clean, Read More
From Huffington Post