TEAMING WITH UNITED SPINAL’S ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES
“Being a person with a disability, I am in the largest minority group – one in four people will experience some type of disability in their life,” says Natalie Barnhard.
She received the 2021 Finn Bullers Advocate of the Year Award at our Roll on Capitol Hill event.
“When you have a spinal cord injury, you do not want to stop doing what you love. So, you hope your city and team are accountable.
I want to see inclusion as essential, not an afterthought, or something a
facility was ordered to do.”
Natalie Barnhard leads the Western New York Chapter of United Spinal and has used a wheelchair for 16 years.
She started the Motion Project Foundation and
founded the Buffalo-based Natalie Barnhard Center for Spinal Cord Injury
Rehabilitation and Recovery – an inclusive gym for intense, activity-based
exercise programs.
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