Rock the Vote’s “Democracy Summer: The ADA at 30.” Co-hosted by co-creator and star Shoshannah Stern, the livestream will feature performances by Jose Feliciano and others as well as personal stories from Paralympic Gold Medalist Alana Jane Nichols and more about the importance of advocating for issues that impact people with disabilities.“As a child, the stories I wrote were never once about Deaf people.
If you don’t see yourself reflected in the world, you start to feel like you should erase yourself. That becomes convenient because if you make yourself invisible, you don’t get a voice,” Stern said of the importance of visibility and the impact of the ADA. “My parents remember very well the world before the ADA, when our community quite.